4th August 2019

BROOKLANDS: A juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, a pair of Little Grebes, a Mute Swan with four cygnets, a Green Woodpecker and a Grey Heron. Also 39 Chub in stream near the sluice. (GJ)

GORING GAP: A brief visit produced two Blackcaps, a pair of Kestrels hunting over the fields and a Willow Warbler. (GJ)

LADYWELL: Birds caught included a Nightingale, a Cetti's Warbler, a Sedge Warbler, two Garden Warblers, two Whitethroats, 13 Reed Warblers, 30 Willow Warblers, a Treecreeper, six Blackcaps, three Chiffchaffs, Sightings included singles of Buzzard, Grey Heron, Swift, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers and Kestrel, plus 60 Jackdaws (JN et al).

SALVINGTON: An Elder Pearl was found early morning in Salvington (NB).

Elder Pearl, Salvington (NB)