The usual collection of waders on the Ferry Pool at Sidlesham today, but there was also a Common Sandpiper at last, a bird I had yet to see this year! Obviously not a rarity or anything but really chuffed to see it, it's a funny old game this birding lark sometimes!

Five Green Sandpipers on the Ferry Pool at Sidlesham at 11AM this morning, along with another sandpiper which may have been Green or Wood but was too distant to clinch I'm afraid!

Green Sandpipers and Spotted Redshank:

Spotted Redshank still present:

At Coastguards, the Common Scoter flock was roughly 40 birds:

A walk to the breach at Medmerry from West Sands produced a Greenshank:

and a delightful and well camouflaged Little Ringed Plover:

and in with the Dunlin and Grey Plovers was a Curlew Sandpiper:

Three Green Sandpipers on the Ferry Pool at Sidlesham, the Spotted Redshank & Ruff had retired by the time I arrived:

Green Sandpiper and assorted wildfowl:

Several Common Scoters still at Coastguards:

On the Avocet pools at Medmerry, ten or so Avocets (as you might expect!) singles of Ringed Plover and Little Ringed Plover, plenty of Linnets and Skylarks about and a constantly singing Corn Bunting. A Little Tern over the pools and a few Sandwich Terns fishing just offshore.

Ubiquitous Little Egret at Medmerry:

 

A couple of bits and pieces today from a quick trip out with Dad. Spotted Redshank and Ruff (with Black-Tailed Godwits) on Sidlesham Ferry Pool, ropey pics but hey they were distant!:

On to Coastguards at Selsey where there were still a few distant Common Scoters, a fly-by Gannet and a few Sandwich Terns.

Success at last with the local Common Buzzards, birds I've been trying to photo for ages, but always without camera, wrong place, wrong time, or just too rubbish to get any pics, here's a start anyway:

At Coastguards, West Beach Selsey today and the Common Scoter flock were still present:

On the Ferry Pool was a female Ruff ( a Reeve):

At the Medmerry breach were plenty of Grey Plovers, including some smart male Summer plumage birds, Dunlin, Turnstones, Black Tailed Godwits, Skylarks, Little & Sandwich Terns:

Also Ringed Plover:

At home, a Stag Beetle on the wall near Oving church:

Thanks for this post are due to my wife and son who let me out on Fathers' Day, those who pointed me in the right direction, the tweeters who kept us all up-to-date and those whose scopes I borrowed for a better look!

The Short Toed Eagle in Ashdown Forest: