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