Started the day at Glynde
was the Great grey shrike 11.00am
moved on the Newhaven with good veiws
of the iceland Gull with GBB gull,LBB gull,
BH gull,Herring gull,then Brighton Marine
on the way home Razorbill's,red-throated Diver,
common scoter,cormorant,turnstone,
mistle thrush

 great grey shrike

 iceland gull

 great black-backed gull

 starling

Headed to Blackdown today.
got to see the Parrot Crossbill,
common crossbill,siskin,fieldfare,
woodlark,meadow pipit,redpoll,sparrowhawk,
kestrel,
 Parrot Crossbill

 Parrot Crossbill

 Parrot Crossbill

 Common Crossbill

  Common Crossbill

 Meadow Pipit

Saturday
Stodmarsh was looking dark ready to rain
but got to see the 2 Glossy Ibis's with Jake
missed the Dotterel at Lydd airport by 5 min's
but saw tree sparrow,and Whooper swan,on the
way.

 Whooper Swan at northiam

 Glossy Ibis ring 04RX

 Glossy Ibis

Went to bedgebury kent,
today and was Hawfinch
distant but got a record shot
saw crossbill's lesser redpoll,siskin,
Tufted Duck

 Coot

 male Kestrel

 Lesser Redpoll

 Hawfinch

Dungeness
To get to see the Smew at burrowes pit
watched two fly in from makepeace hide
and saw a great white egret at ARC hide.
lots of birds pairing up now Goldeneye,
Gadwall,shoveler,saw chiffchaff, tree sparrow,
Goldeneye

 Great white egret

 Goldeneye

 Great white egret

 Chiffchaff

 Gadwall

 Smew one of two their.

 Shoveler

Caspian Gull is the size of Herring
pushed adult herring gulls away.
 is this a Caspian
Thanks John Cooper
for ID

Gosport Hampshire
a quick visit to see the ring-billed gull
then to west dean but no joy with the Hawfinches
left at 2.10 and Russ saw then at 2.20 will try again.
lots more around crossbills,chaffinch,goldfinch,siskin,
robin,wren,redwing,fieldfare,buzzard,red kite,kestrel,
red-legged partridge,.

 ring-billed gull

 common & ring-billed gull

 ring-billed gull

 common gull

 black-headed gull

 chaffinch

 wren

had a afternoon trip to the old lodge
meet  garry bagnell at gill's gap and
we then headed to the old lodge
and  saw 2 woodlark, 7 crossbill,
coal tit,lesser redpoll, skylark, on
the way home popped in to the west end
of weirwood and saw a Barn Owl in front of the hide
then home.

 woodlark