Wildlife sightings
We'd love to hear about the wildlife you’ve spotted in Lee Valley Regional Park. Every record helps us to monitor how species are doing throughout the park and will also feed into wider county records.
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Recent sightings in the park
70 Acres Lake, Fishers Green
30/11/23, 00:00
Shoveler
Matthew Taylor
Stanstead Innings
17/11/23, 09:45
Juvenile Great Northern Diver
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre, Fishers Green
11/11/23, 16:15
Male Sparrowhawk
Mark Phillips
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
10/11/23, 00:00
Ring-necked Parakeet against an Autumn background .
John Spencer Cook
Wildlife Discovery Centre, Fishers Green
24/10/23, 13:30
Bittern observed on fence
Taken from viewing tower.
Trevor
Lee Valley Farm
21/10/23, 23:00
Weasel
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
17/10/23, 12:30
A Yawning Bittern
John Spencer Cook
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
28/09/23, 23:00
The Bittern , doing the Bittern Shimmy .
John Spencer Cook
Rye Meads
28/09/23, 23:00
Water Vole
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre
20/09/23, 23:00
Two bitterns seen.
When this one saw bittern number two, it chased it away.
Caroline Leonard
Stansted Innings
25/11/23, 14:00
Great Crested Grebe
Paul Griffiths
Abbotts Lake, Stanstead Innings
15/11/23, 00:00
Great Northern Diver with crayfish
Paula Moore
Rye Meads
11/11/23, 00:00
Penduline Tit. Safely released after being trapped by the Rye Meads Ringing Group.
Stuart Fox
King's Meads near Ware
25/10/23, 23:00
Stonechat
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
22/10/23, 10:38
Bittern
Stuart Fox
Stanstead Abbots
17/10/23, 14:45
Glossy Ibis
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
10/10/23, 10:00
Grey Heron with Catch (Perch) .
John Spencer Cook
Rye Meads
28/09/23, 23:00
Water Vole
Stuart Fox
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
28/09/23, 10:21
The Bittern , catching a Dragonfly .
John Spencer Cook
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
20/09/23, 23:00
Two bitterns seen in the reeds from the Bittern hide.
When they saw each other there was an angry chase!
Caroline Leonard
Stanstead Innings, Abbotts Lake
22/11/23, 11:55
Great Northern Diver (juvenile)
Stuart Fox
Waterworks Nature Reserve
14/11/23, 16:30
Little Owl on old pitch'n'putt site
Marcin Kempa
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
10/11/23, 10:40
Cormorant drying out
John Spencer Cook
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
24/10/23, 13:35
One Bittern, very mobile, appearing several times during the afternoon.
Graham Canny
Wildlife Discovery Centre Fishers Green
22/10/23, 09:22
Bittern
Stuart Fox
Stanstead Abbotts
17/10/23, 14:45
Glossy Ibis
Stuart Fox
RSPB Rye Meads
09/10/23, 15:25
Water Vole, in the pond adjacent to the Draper Hide.
Graham Canny
Cornmill Meadows
28/09/23, 23:00
Caddis fly
Limnephilus lunatus.
Caroline Leonard
WDC
20/09/23, 23:00
Bittern - one of two present in reedbed by WDC
Philip Butson
WDC
20/09/23, 23:00
Bittern - one of two present in reedbed by WDC
Philip Butson