PATCHING/ANGMERING PARK ESTATE: A walk around Patching Hill and the east side of the Angmering Park Estate produced two Firecrests (one heard singing), a Mistle Thrush, a Yellowhammer, two Nuthatches, three Skylarks, a Meadow Pipit, a Kestrel, two Nuthatches and eight Goldcrests. The Great Crested Grebe was still on Patching Pond, along with a Coot (DKC).
THE DOWNS (Steyning to No-Man's-Land): Ringtail HEN HARRIER, a Firecrest, a Chiffchaff, 15 Corn Buntings, four Yellowhammers, c80 Linnets, many singing Skylarks, 33+ Pied Wagtails, c25 Meadow Pipits, two Kestels, a Sparrowhawk and four Buzzards (SOS).
WORTHING: Two Blackcaps still in garden in Rogate Road, 2 Buzzards over and a Red Admiral butterfly (NB).
I did an hour on Thursday Feb 6th at the MG shelter in West Worthing (0830-0930) and logged:
Brent Goose 5 E; Red-throated Diver 7 E 3W and one on sea, Red-breasted Merganser 30 os, GC Grebe 32 os , Sandwich Tern two W (well offshore) - presumably from the wintering Selsey group.
Later a brief stop at Goring Gap added a Med Gull and a Shelduck flying west (CH)
