Church Norton

A morning at Church Norton

looking for a Slav grebe
got to see 10+ from the beach
3 great crested grebe's 7 Common scoter
a bar-tailed and black-tailed godwit
Redshanks Grey plover Brent Geese
Shelduck little egret.

 Slavonian Grebe

 Turnstone

 Bar-tailed Godwit & Redshank

Widewater & Gorring

Started the day
watching the Female Goosander at widewater
a quick sea water I got to see a Eider drifting passed
then west to Worthing Gorring area
we saw Sanderling Dunlin ringed Plover
2 Bar-tailed Godwit on the beach.

Female Goosander

 

Turnstone

 Bar-tailed Godwit

Rye

Afternoon at Rye
I got to see the long staying Long-tailed Duck.
A bird of prey got all the birds up at the far end
of rye it was heading to the golf course and wind turbines.
not a great view could be the Black Kite a Possibility I'm
thinking.

 Long-Tailed Duck

 Possible Black Kite

 Hut at Rye

Waltham brooks then Seaford

Started the day
going to Waltham Brooks
to see the Great grey Shrike
after a hour sitting in the car with the hammering rain
coming through the window I got to see twice
the GG shrike moving around from bush to bush
The news came out that seaford sea watch (Bob Self) was having a good day.
So off l went to meet up with Matt in
2 hours we saw 230 little Gull a Bonxie a Arctic Skua
Brent geese scoter.

 Record shot's
Great Grey Shrike

Some of the 230 Little Gull's today

Red-Breasted & Ring-billed

Hampshire
Hurst Castle as tide came in the
Red-breasted goose moved closer to.
Then to see the Gosport
Ring-billed Gull back for another winter.

 Red-Breasted Goose

 Snipe

 Grey Plover

 Rock Pipit

 Ring-Billed Gull