13th January 2020

ADUR ESTUARY: c100 Lapwings, c12 Redshanks, Rock Pipit and Curlew. 20 Oystercatchers from Glass Bridge (SOS). Also Greenshank still, 30 Teal, a Little Grebe, 30 Snipe, 30 Redshanks, nine Reed Buntings, 10 Skylarks, a Meadow Pipit, a Stonechat and 25 Linnets (BirdTrack).

BRAMBER BROOKS: Two Snipe (BirdTrack).


BROOKLANDS PARK: Drake POCHARD still, three Chiffchaffs and at least three Teal (SOS).

CISSBURY RING-LYCHPOLE BOTTOM: Red Kite (BirdTrack).

GORING: Male Blackcap in garden (SOS).

SHOREHAM: Blackcap at Victoria Road (BirdTrack).

SHOREHAM HARBOUR: Four Purple Sandpipers on jetty opposite fort (SOS).

STEYNING BOWL: Red Kite and Kestrel (BirdTrack).

ADUR DOWNSTREAM OF CEMENT WORKS: Redhead GOOSANDER again, Common Sandpiper still (SOS).

WIDEWATER LAGOON: Three Red-breasted Mergansers (two adult drakes), 10 Teal, Little Grebe and Kingfisher. Turnstone on beach (SOS).

WORTHING2 VELVET SCOTERS west, 1 Red-Breasted Merganser, 2 Razorbills, 1 Kittiwake, 15 Gannets. Stormy seas and there didn’t appear anything trying to sit on it (RI).