21st April 2020

ADUR ESTUARY: BLACK-TAILED GODWIT still, four Whimbrel, a Yellow Wagtail, a Shelduck, a Cetti's Warbler, a Reed Warbler two Oystercatchers, a Little Egret, a Lesser Black-backed Gull and 25 Common Gulls (Bt).

ANGMERING: Yellow Wagtail (Bt).

BROOKLANDS PARK: Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler and Mallard with nine ducklings. Nine AVOCETS, five Common Terns, 20+ Whimbrel and three or more Curlew, two Sandwich Terns, a Swift, two Swallows and two House Martins  offshore (SOS).

CHURCH HILL, FINDON: Three Mistle Thrushes, a Whitethroat and a Swallow (Bt).

EAST PRESTON: Spotted Flycatcher (GDM).

FERRING RIFE: Five Blackcap, two Chiffchaff, four Greenfinch, a Little Egret, five Mallard, two Mediterranean Gull, a Moorhen, four Swallow, five Whitethroat and a Willow Warbler (Bt).

GORING GAP: Three Blackcap, three Chiffchaff, two Collared Dove, a Common Gull, a Common Tern, nine Gannet, a Green Woodpecker, seven Greenfinch, nine Linnet, eight Oystercatcher, six Sandwich Tern, a Shelduck, three Skylark, a Song Thrush, a Stock Dove, a Swallow, 70 Turnstone, 16 Whimbrel, a Whitethroat and a Yellow Wagtail (Bt).

SALVINGTON: A Wall butterfly was seen in newly created habitat in Durrington rec (my first record here), a Blackcap was also singing in the wooded area here (NB)

WEST HILL, FINDON: A Swallow and a Mistle Thrush (Bt).

WEST WORTHING: Two Greylags, a Fulmar, four Common Scoters, four Whimbrel, three Shelducks, 12 Sandwich Terns, 12 Common Gulls and 17 Gannets (Bt).

WIDEWATER LAGOON: A Little Egret and an Oystercatcher (Bt).

WORTHING BEACH: Two Yellow Wagtails, two Bar-tailed Godwits, a Whimbrel, 22 Gannets, 11 Sandwich Terns, two Common Scoters, a 2cy Kittiwake, a Mediterranean Gull and three Common Gulls (SOS).