ADUR ESTUARY: Four Ringed Plovers, two Dunlin and a Whimbrel by tollbridge this morning (SOS).
BROOKLANDS PARK: Still no decent fall of migrants. Or that mythical Hoopoe that should have been feeding on the redundant golf course greens! Just a single Common Whitethroat and 2 Willow Warbler. Offshore the sea was once again bird less save for a few gulls, a single Wheatear was on a rock groyne. Around the lake 3 Grey Heron a pair of Lesser Black backed Gulls on the island and a Common Sandpiper. Lone Oystercatcher flew west calling (BFF).
FERRING RIFE: Wheatear, Whimbrel, two Garden Warblers, six Swallows, a Sedge Warbler, four Reed Warblers, two Reed Buntings, Kestrel, four Turnstones, eight Moorhens and a Mallard (Bt).
GORING: Willow Warbler (Bt).
GORING GAP: Two Swallows (Bt).
KINGSTON GORSE: HOOPOE flew north at 9.58am (RBA). Also two Willow Warblers, Great Crested Grebe, 16 Turnstones, 18 Sanderlings, two Sandwich Terns, a Gannet and four Swallows (Bt).
MILL HILL: Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler (towards River Adur) and a few House Martins and Swallows (Bt).
SALVINGTON: 2 Swifts were hawking around a regular haunt this afternoon so hopefully our local Swifts are back (NB).
SHOREHAM: Six Swifts flew over Eastern Avenue (SOS).
SOMPTING: NIGHTJAR flew low north over Hamble Road/ Test Road junction at c8.30pm (SOS).
STEYNING: Four Marsh Tits, Yellowhammer and Swift (Bt).
WEST WORTHING: Two Swifts, acting like locals as they screamed and circled in no
particular direction, greeted me this morning at home, where later a
noisy flock of nine Lesser Black-backed Gulls was quite noteworthy (DKC).
WIDEWATER LAGOON: MANDARIN and GREAT WHITE EGRET flew east; also eight Wheatears, 20 Dunlin, a Sanderling, five Whimbrel and 'many' Gannets (SOS).
