The Blues...

I have to agree with Owen Mitchell's rant on the Selsey Blog...where is everything in West Sussex/East Hampshire? A record year for Yellow-Browed Warblers and not one for us? The best we can muster at the moment seems to be a Ring Ouzel! And yes I do know there is/was the Pallid Harrier at The Burgh but if you compare that to other parts of the country then it's a pretty poor show. And it's not for want of trying of course. How many man/woman hours have been spent searching? But if there's nothing to find then it can't be found! Take a look at some of the old news pages from SOS for this time a few years back...read them & weep! Dusky Warbler, Sabine's Gull, 290 Divers, Sooty Shearwater, OK not major rares but enough of interest ...as I write this in my mind there is still hope, however, that something interesting might turn up...not a bird but a Long-Tailed Blue! Update: Bird Alerts today in West Sussex by 19:30: 0!