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All hides except Gill's Lookout are accessible to everyone today, including with mobility scooters. Water levels are continuing to drop. Lady Fen trails are now closed until after breeding season, but great views from cafe veranda. All roads including A1101 Welney Wash Road are open. 

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Welney sightings - 28/10/2022

A very warm autumn day here at Welney, plenty of activity around the site from long-tailed tits and tree sparrows near the visitor centre to flocks of swans, ducks, waders and egrets our across the washes.

Highlights:
Spotted redshank - 1 Lady Fen pool
Great white egret - 5
Tree sparrow
Whooper swan
Stonechat

Mute swan
Wigeon
Teal
Shoveler
Mallard
Pochard
Pintail
Moorhen
Grey heron
Little egret
Snipe
Lapwing - 500+
Black-tailed godwit
Ruff
Dunlin
Redshank
Golden plover
Buzzard
Marsh harrier
Cetti's warbler
Meadow pipit
Skylark
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Long-tailed tit
Lesser black-backed gull

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