Pale-bellied Brent Goose

One with the Brent flock at Church Norton today:

Ferruginous Duck

I love a duck me and the lovely Ferruginous Duck juvenile showed well after a while at Bedhampton today, as ever thanks for the help all present! Rubbish photo but hey it dives a lot what can I say!!

Merlin

Merlin at the North Wall, they don't often show like this, glad I went over!

Tree Pipit & Ortolan Bunting

Garden Warbler

One at Pagham recently

Pied Flycatcher

One at Pagham a few weeks ago

Ruddy Shelduck

Ruddy Shelduck at Pagham Harbour.

"Sussex" Butterflies

Went over to Ditchling Common today for the Black Hairstreaks and personally found it pretty grim; I don't now how the butterflies got here but the whole thing just didn't feel right to me...release, re-found introduction maybe...I don't know... :-(

Nevertheless, I do hope people enjoy their presence.

After that I went to Park Corner Heath to check out what is definitely a release, Sussex Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary; found a nice male that pushed off before pics could be taken and a worn female. Plenty of Small Heath, Meadow Brown & one or two Common Blue as well.

So two butterfly species in Sussex...now where are those Knepp White Storks....

Black-winged Stilt

Always nice to see one of these..on the Ferry Pool early this morning, Black-winged Stilt:

Wood Sandpiper and two Stints

Clawed one back, Wood Sandpiper was showing well if a bit distant, right at the back of Sidlesham Ferry Pool up to 1115 at least, nice.

Little Stint on the Ferry Pool 22.5.18, Temminck's Stint ditto 23.5.18

Ropey photos of the three below..I tried...

Pomarine Skuas

Here is my video of the four Pomarine Skuas that went past Selsey on the 11th of May and thanks to the power of Twitter were later seen as far as Splash Point in East Sussex:

Pomarine Skuas

Stone Curlew etc.

Here are a few pictures from recently that didn't make it on to the Selsey blog as they have been well covered there already and it didn't seem any point on putting on more of the same:

Little Owl

Redstart

Stone Curlew, a peninsula and Sussex tick for me!

Little Terns

Ruff

Whitethroat

Corn Bunting

Reed Warbler

Sedge Warbler

Pomarine Skuas

Swallows

A dozen and a half Swallows (not all in the pic.!) at Medmerry:

White & Yellow Wagtails

A White Wagtail in the horse paddocks at North Wall, Pagham this week...

...and a Yellow Wagtail at Warner lane paddocks:

Iceland Gull

One of the recent  Iceland Gull at Selsey:

Black-necked Grebe

One of the Black-necked Grebe on Pagham Lagoon earlier this month:

Ross's Gull

I arrived at Lodmoor this morning only for the RBA alert to go off to say that the Ross's Gull was at Ferrybridge! A fairly rapid scoot over to Chesil and there it was..winter adult Ross's Gull! A stunning bird I thought! Managed to get a couple of other birders on it by passing on the message at Lodmoor which was nice. Another look at Lodmoor later on in a biting wind didn't produce the gull but a Marsh Harrier performed very well over the reedbeds, always good to see.

Glaucous Gull

A Glaucous Gull at Church Norton yesterday afternoon was still there today, albeit on the Pagham Spit side, munching on a deceased Lesser-spotted Dogfish, video here

Thayer's Gull

Second time lucky for me as I dipped the Thayer's Gull at Tidpit pig fields yesterday-today, however, it was there, very pleased! Also present a 1w Caspian Gull (and a few Yellow-legged  & Mediterranean Gulls not pictured).

Thayer's Gull video here

White-spotted Bluethroat & Black Guillemot

Bluethroat at West Rise Marsh was a Sussex tick for me; the Black Guillemot is also looking much darker now at Sovereign Harbour.

Bluethroat video here

Red-necked Grebe

Best bird of the last few weeks has been the Red-necked Grebe at Church Norton/Selsey, a vdeo of it is here: Red-necked Grebe