16th - 17th September 2013

Tuesday 17th September 2013

Just to remind everyone that Mr Mitchell is back from his travels tomorrow and will retake control of the blog from then on. Thanks to everyone who kept me supplied with information - it was a busy weekend! AH

Ferry Pool: Normal service has been resumed - just 4 Dunlin and 6 Black-Tailed Godwit this morning, plus the roosting 50+ Lapwings, the 4 juvenile Shelduck and a handful of Teal.

Church Norton: Best bird of the morning was a sub-adult male Marsh Harrier that circled over the copse a few times before drifting away west. No sign of the Wryneck in the dismal and deteriorating conditions. Otherwise, 5 Sandwich Terns, 30+ Grey Plovers, 20 Black-Tailed Godwits, a single Bar-Tailed Godwit and a Greenshank in the harbour, and up to 3 Spotted Flycatchers, 1 Redstart, and 20+ of Blackcap & Chiffchaff roaming round in big loose flocks, and 50+ Swallows and 10+ Meadow Pipits overhead.
 

Chiffchaff, Church Norton 17/9/13 (AH)

Marsh Harrier, Church Norton 17/9/13 (AH)

 

North Wall: 5 Curlew Sandpipers, 3 Spotted Redshank and a Kingfisher in White's Creek. Owl Copse and North Fields - 15 Chiffchaff, 7 Blackcap, 1 Whitethroat, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Sedge Warbler, 2 Reed Warbler, 1 Spotted Flycatcher & 1 Redstart (CRJ & CF)



Monday 16th September 2013


Selsey Bill: Very quiet this morning after yesterday's storm, barely a bird on the move. A couple of Sandwich Terns offshore, a Wheatear and a Chiffchaff in the Bill House garden the highlights.
 
1800-1900: Red-Throated Diver 1W (first of the autumn), Gannet 1W 2E, Sandwich tern 14W, Common Tern 8W, Oystercatcher 1 obs (SH)

Wheatear at Selsey Bill 16/9/13 (AH)

 

Ferry Pool: Very quiet in  the strong north-westerly - 1 Greenshank, 1 Yellow-Legged Gull, 6 Dunlin and 6 Black-Tailed Godwit was the sum of it.

 

Church Norton: It more than made up for the lack of birds elsewhere, with the Wryneck showing very well in its favourite bush in the 1st Several, supported by 3 Spotted Flycatchers, a brief Pied Flycatcher, seen by A&YF but sadly not relocated, 10+ Blackcaps, 10+ Chiffchaffs, 1 Reed Warbler and 2 or 3  Whitethroats, along with a juvenile Arctic Tern off the beach and a Sandwich Tern in the harbour.

 

Juvenile Arctic Tern, Church Norton 16/9/13 (AH)

The Wryneck enjoying the sun in the 1st Several 16/9/13 (AH)

 

 

North Wall:Very breezy. 118 Black-Tailed Godwits on Breach Pool akong with 1 Spotted Redshank and 14 Lapwing, which all subsequently took off and went into White's Creek. Prior to this there had been 44 Redshank and 1 Curlew Sandpiper and 1 Spotted Redshank along the Creek. (JW)