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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 - 30/06/2020

WWT Welney is now open, but for pre-booked visits only. Members, non-members and pre-existing ticket holders can select a day to visit from the website. The shop and toilets are open, but the café remains closed.

Highlight:-
Whooper swans pair + five cygnets at Reedbed hide
2 crane
Green sandpiper

Mute swan
Greylag goose
Mallard
Shoveler
Shelduck
Tufted duck
Wigeon
Gadwall
Moorhen
Coot
Black-tailed godwit
Redshank
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Avocet
Grey heron
Little egret
Cormorant
Lesser black backed gull
Common tern
Blackcap
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Starling
Goldfinch
Reed warbler
Sedge warbler
Cuckoo
Swallow
House martin
Swift
Marsh harrier
Buzzard

Purple loosestrife
Yellow loosestrife
Fringed water-lily
Meadow rue
Valerian
Marsh woundwort
Flowering rush

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