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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.

Want to submit your wildlife sightings? You can fill out the form below or alternatively email 

wildlifesightings@leevalleypark.org.uk

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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

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