CISSBURY/HILL BARN : Saturday 21st April - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Sunny stroll through the golf course and round the ring. Highlights were as follows. 6 Mediterranean gulls wheeling around and calling out and then heading West. Greenfinch's calling out from at least 5 locations which is more I've seen from this bird for a long time perhaps to do with how disease has diminished its numbers.
The following birds also seen.
Blue tit, great tit, long tailed tit, chaffinch, linnet, goldfinch, yellowhammer, blackbird, carrion crow, rook, magpie, jackdaw, great spotted woodpecker, green woodpecker, whitethroat, chiffchaff, blackcap, robin, wren, swallow, herring gull, house sparrow, kestrel, buzzard, pheasant, skylark, stonechat, wood pigeon, meadow pipit.
Butterflies also out in good numbers. Peacock, comma, large and small white, brimstone and speckled wood seen.
As to the flora this to is changing with the weather and it was interesting to see the common dog violet out in profusion replacing the early dog violet which was present when I did this walk 17 March this year. Carpets too of the humble looking but aromatic ground ivy PT
GORING GAP : Saturday 21st April 2018
A short watch from the block (1730-1800) : Whimbrel 7E. Red-breasted Merganser 3E (late?) Sandwich Tern 2E and Gannet one W CH
FERRING RIFE: Sunday 22nd April 2018
6 Whitethroats; one Willow Warbler; 2-3 Chiffchaffs and in the paddocks west of the Country Centre two very smart male Wheatears which by the colour of their underparts I 'd say were Greenland Wheatears CH
