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| Treecreeper just inches from the shingle beach at Goring Gap! DKC
Pleasant few hours up around CISSBURY RING this afternoon, 3+ Corn Bunting singing, 3 Yellowhammer's singing, male Kestrel, Meadow Pipit singing and carrying fecal sac, Skylarks fluttering about, Red Kite over a copse and best of all (if a bit distant) were three Whinchat - 2 of which males - hopping around in a set aside strip next to the Monarch's Way just north of the ring. ED
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July 13th 2018
Today's highlights at GORING GAP [Trektellen] were the dramatic sight of an adult Hobby bolting in to seize a House Sparrow from the rough field, and a calling Treecreeper at the very seaward end of the Plantation which I eventually tracked down to photograph. 10 Mediterranean Gulls included two juveniles, while two Common Gulls were an adult and a 2CY. Three Teal, two Grey Herons and 13 Little Egrets were on the beach. Waders comprised three of both Whimbrel and Oystercatcher, as well as singles of Ringed Plover, Dunlin and Redshank. Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls tracked east over land and just four Gannets and seven Sandwich Terns were offshore (the sea was still very dead!). Nine Swallows and three Swifts flew through. DKC
