25th April 2020

ADUR ESTUARY: BLACK-TAILED GODWIT still, two Dunlin, three Ringed Plovers and drake Shelduck (SOS).

CISSBURY RING: A Wheatear, a Garden Warbler, two Yellowhammers and a Mistle Thrush (Bt).

GORING GAP: Four Arctic Skua, an Arctic Tern, an Auk sp., 41 Bar-tailed Godwit, two Blackcap, 97 Brent Goose, a Chiffchaff, 16 Common Gull, 40 Common Scoter, a Common Tern, seven Commic Tern, 19 Cormorant, six Dunlin, two Fulmar, 335 Gannet, 16 Great Black-backed Gull, two Great Crested Grebe, 16 Great Skua, three Greenfinch, six Lesser Black-backed Gull, six Linnet, 27 Mediterranean Gull, 15 Oystercatcher, a Pheasant, a Pied/White Wagtail, two POMARINE SKUA, two Red-throated Diver, 30 Sanderling, 146 Sandwich Tern, two Shoveler, two Skylark, three Stock Dove, nine Swallow, a Swift, 28 Turnstone, 69 Whimbrel, two Whinchat and two Yellow Wagtail (Bt).

Great Skua at Goring Gap


Two Bar-tailed Godwit and a Whimbrel (centre) at Goring Gap


SHOREHAM: Curlew flew over (SOS).

SHOREHAM HARBOUR: Five Wheatears and a Yellow Wagtail (Bt).

WEST WORTHING: A pale morph Arctic Skua, three Bonxies, three Fulmars, 24 Whimbrel, two Bar-tailed Godwits, 25 Sandwich Terns, 13 Mediterranean Gulls, a Kittiwake, 47 Gannets (Bt).

WIDEWATER LAGOON: A Little Tern, a Common Tern and 10 Dark-bellied Brent Geese flew past (SOS). Also Whinchat and a Yellow Wagtail (Bt).