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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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Today's Highlights

Today's Highlights

Water vole - Front pond Grasshopper warbler Dunlin - Lady Fen Ringed plover - Lady Fen Garganey - Lady Fen 1st Avocet chicks - Lyle hide

8 May 2015

Today's Highlights

Today's Highlights

CuckooOrange tip butterfly (pathway to reedbed hide) Red kite Great white egret - Reedbed Garganey - (Nelson-lyle hide) Reed warbler (lyle hide)

7 May 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

20 Swifts Cuckoo - Reedbed hide

6 May 2015

Todays highlights

Todays highlights

Great white egret - Lyle hide

5 May 2015

Todays highlights

Todays highlights

A great day on the reserve lots of Lapwing chicks on Lady Fen and Yellow wagtails around the cattle look out for the... Blue headed wagtail on Lady Fen

4 May 2015

Todays sightings

Todays sightings

A great day 84 species seen today Avocet Barn owl Bewick's swan Black-headed gull Black-tailed godwit Blackbird Blackcap Blue tit Buzzard Canada goose Crow Cetti's warbler Chaffinch Chiffchaff Collared dove Common tern Coot Cormorant Corn bunting Dunlin D

1 May 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

Greenshank - Lady Fen Dunlin - 32 - Lady Fen Ringed plover - 38 Lady Fen Wheatear - Lyle hide Hobby

30 April 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

Whimbrel - 4 Lady Fen Kingfisher - Back pond Yellow wagtail - Lady Fen Swallow

27 April 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

Barn owl Swallow Common crane - 2 Lyle hide Whitethroat - lyle hide Cetti's warbler - lyle hide Yellow wagtail - Lady fen Garganey Whimbrel - Lady Fen

26 April 2015

Todays highlights

Todays highlights

Garganey male - Lady Fen Swallows House martins Pied wagtails Shoveler Shelduck Red kite Ruff Lapwing chicks - Lady Fen

25 April 2015

Todays highlights

Todays highlights

Peregrine Crane x 4 Moorhen chicks Lady Fen Whimbrel - 4 Lady Fen Marsh harrier Garganey pair just outside the café

24 April 2015

Todays sightings

Todays sightings

A beautiful day on the reserve lots of lapwing chicks tottering around outside the café, displaying black-tailed godwits, 2 great white egrets flying around the reserve and jack snipe infront of Nelson-lyle hide. Todays sightings - Avocet Barn owl Bewick

23 April 2015

Todays Sightings

Todays Sightings

Great day, highlights are: Jack snipe Wheatear Whimbrel - Lady Fen Hobby Great white egret - 2 Avocet Barn owl Bewick’s swan Black-headed gull Black-tailed godwit Blackbird Blackcap Blue tit Buzzard Crow Cetti’s warbler Chaffinch Chi

21 April 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

Garganey - male and female on Lady Fen, can be seen from the café Lapwing chick - Lady Fen Gadwall - male and female Whitethroat - Allport hide Yellow Wagtail - Lady Fen

20 April 2015

Todays Highlights

Todays Highlights

Yellow wagtail - 17 on Lady Fen

19 April 2015