This morning's seawatch off GORING GAP wasn't too bad, with a Great Northern Diver making its way west, while two Mute Swans and two Sandwich Terns headed in the opposite direction. Backup came in the form of two Common Scoters, 45 Red-breasted Mergansers (mostly flying west), nine Great Crested Grebes, seven Gannets, two Mediterranean Gulls and nine Common Gulls. Six Meadow Pipits flew west and two Ringed Plovers and an Oystercatcher flew along the beach. DKC
As I got through the door at home in WEST WORTHING another Meadow Pipit called overhead. DKC
My first visit to Goring Gap for a while was fairly quiet. The clear highlight was a Great Northern Diver that flew west quite close in. Other birds moving included Mute Swan 2E, Gannet 5W, Red-breasted Merganser 16W (looked like birds repositioning rather than movement) and Teal 3W. 2 Common Scoters settled offshore. On the beach were 37 Turnstones, 7 Sanderlings and 1 Grey Plover. 2 distant Red Kites drifted east, north of the gap RS
