We have been searching hard for Slavonian Grebe on the sea so it was a delight to finally clock one distantly offshore this morning. 54 Red-breasted Mergansers, 32 Great Crested Grebes and a Kittiwake were also offshore and nine Sandwich Terns were around. Seven Mediterranean Gulls (including single 2CY and 3CY) were in the fields. A new male Wheatear flew along the beach and while the northern fields continued to host the previous bird. Waders included eight Oystercatchers, 20 Turnstones, a Ringed Plover, four Dunlin, nine Grey Plovers and 22 Sanderlings. Two Meadow Pipits, four Skylarks, a Redwing, a Buzzard and a Sparrowhawk were also logged.
2CY Mediterranean Gull - Photo NB
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| Sandwich Terns DKC |
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| 2CY Buzzard DKC |
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| Mediterranean Gulls (3CY and 2 adults) with Black-headed Gulls and Herring Gull DKC |
FERRING RIFE
A walk along the rife today produced 2 Little Egrets, a single Reed Bunting and 3 flyover Golden Plovers. GJ
per SOS page: Firecrest on east side of Ferring Rife flitting about in bushes and a ditch which backs onto houses about 200m South of the footbridge. Steve Lee
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| 1 of the 2 Little Egrets at Ferring Rife this morning. Photo by GJ |
WORTHING A Firecrest was in a private garden on Boundary Road DKC
