River Wey
Burpham, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Group: Zero Guildford : River Wey at Guildford
- Site ID: GB106039017630/T080/SEQ600
- Lat: 51.2546
- Lng: -0.56566
- Waterbody Type: River
- Timezone: Europe/London
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View all photosLots of Bird Wildlife on the River today. Heron. Canadian Geese, 6 Kites ( Birds of Prey ) flying above and two Grebes diving in the river and doing a Spring Courtship synchronized dance. We also saw a few long tailed tits flying back and forth across the river.
Parts of the river path had fallen away into the river and was cordoned off with fencing for safety reason.
High river level, fast flowing, brown water
Intense smell from sewerage works or abbatoir
High water level, fast flowing
Plastic detritus in reeds / bank
Lots of rubbish , plastic, strange green water on tributary under a3
Vegetation on the opposite side of the river to the pontoon.
Sewerage outflow pipe - lots of flow and frothy
Brown slow moving water
Upstream from pipe shown
Alan and Sarah testing
On pontoon - beware of slop going down could be slippery when wet
Strong smell of sewage from sewage works
Lots of wagtails
Met angler from Guildford Anglian society who said this stretch of river was dead / devoid of fish.
Saw a cormorant