Saturday 29 December 2018

Sunday 23 December 2018

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!!





Monday 8 October 2018

Merlin

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



Friday 15 June 2018

"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....





Sunday 3 June 2018

Black-winged Stilt

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





Tuesday 22 May 2018

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...




Sunday 20 May 2018

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



Sunday 22 April 2018

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:



Saturday 17 March 2018

Friday 23 February 2018

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.





Saturday 17 February 2018

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


Sunday 11 February 2018

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




Saturday 10 February 2018

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



Saturday 13 January 2018

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