29th January 2020


ADUR ESTUARY:  On the RSPB reserve on the Adur was a Wigeon, along with eight Teal, 14 Redshanks and a flock of 20 Linnets (DKC/P.Wallace). Also two Mediterranean Gulls (SOS). Two Little Grebes, two Buzzards, a Moorhen, a Stonechat, two Meadow Pipits, two Reed Buntings, 170 Common Gulls, two Kestrels and a Goldcrest (BirdTrack).

CISSBURY RING: A Chiffchaff today (BirdTrack).

GORING GAP: Four Mediterranean Gulls, 10 Skylarks and 50 Pied Wagtails, 1 Kestrel (NB).

KINGSTON GORSE: MERLIN flushed a Jack Snipe, plus several Snipe (GK).

NO MAN'S LAND AREA: A late afternoon scan from Titch Hill offered 17 Fieldfares, a female Sparrowhawk and a Kestrel, but little else (DKC/P.Wallace).

PATCHING: The 2 Siberian Chiffchaff's were still present at the sewage works (GDM)

SHOREHAM HARBOUR: One Purple Sandpiper and five Turnstones were on the wooden jetty (DKC/P.Wallace). Three Purple Sandpipers, Rock Pipit, Meadow Pipit and 12 Turnstones (SOS).

Purple Sandpiper at Shoreham (DKC).

WIDEWATER LAGOON: Kingfisher and two Little Grebes (SOS).