18th July 2019


BROOKLANDS PLEASURE PARK had two juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls among the small number of Larids present. An adult Mediterranean Gull and three Lesser Black-backed Gulls were also present, along with the usual Mute Swan family. A Goldcrest was still feeding juveniles by the stream, where a Green Woodpecker yaffled DKC. A Common Sandpiper was also present (SOS).

Yellow-legged Gull at Brooklands Pleasure Park (bird 1) DKC

Yellow-legged Gull at Brooklands Pleasure Park (bird 2) DKC

Yellow-legged Gull at Brooklands Pleasure Park (bird 2) DKC

Yellow-legged Gull at Brooklands Pleasure Park (bird 2) DKC

Five minutes scanning the ADUR ESTUARY from the toll bridge produced four Oystercatchers, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, a Little Egret and eight Mute Swans. DKC From Norfolk Bridge there was a Whimbrel and five Little Egrets (SOS).  

GORING GAP first thing was almost immediately written off by grotty weather, with just two Mediterranean Gulls (adult and juvenile), two Little Egrets, two Sandwich Terns and an Oystercatcher noted before then. DKC

WIDEWATER: 5 Little Egrets (SOS).

WORTHING: A count of c30 Swifts were feeding up high over half moon lane Salvington late evening, largest flock seen in the area this year to date NB