1st September 2025

Monday, 1st September: Another morning with a fresh and blustery south-westerly breeze pushing through lots of cloud and the odd heavy squall......

Selsey Bill: There was a bit of activity again this morning, including two Balearic Shearwaters west, an Arctic Skua east and another west, 225 Gannets west and good numbers of Common and Sandwich Terns. Full log below. (AH/CRJ/JDa/BFF/SL)

(0700-0930hrs) (SW, F5-6)

Great Crested Grebe - 1E, 1os

Balearic Shearwater - 2W (0745hrs & 0828hrs)

Gannet - 225W

Shag - 3E, 1os

Common Scoter - 5E

Turnstone - 8

Arctic Skua - 1E, 1W

Mediterranean Gull - 28W

Kittiwake - 1E

Sandwich Tern - 3E, 58W, 85os

Common Tern - 12W, 8os

auk sp - 2W

Swallow - 3W

House Martin - 1W

Gannets (above), Common Tern & Mediterranean Gull at the Bill (AH)

Ferry Pool: There were just a Common Sandpiper, the juvenile Redshank, a dozen Black-tailed Godwits and eight Teal present this morning (AH), with a Common Sandpiper also seen in the channel opposite a bit later. (ABi)

Common Sandpiper at the Ferry (AH)

Mill Pond Marsh: There were two Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, a Greenshank, two Redshanks, a Whimbrel, a Black-tailed Godwit and four Snipe on the flooded field this morning, with a Cetti's Warbler and one or two Blackcaps, Whitethroats and Reed Warblers in the bushes. (ABi/AH/AHa)

Green Sandpiper at Mill Pond Marsh (AH)

Fishbourne Creek: An Osprey went over the Lavant outflow this morning, heading south. (M Wright)

Church Norton: The three Spoonbills were off the benches again this morning before two flew to the harbour mouth and one headed for the North Wall, whilst c120 Sandwich Tern, a Common Tern, c40 Mediterranean Gulls and c80 Black-headed Gulls were roosting on the mud, but waders were limited to a couple of Whimbrel, a dozen Curlews and Ringed Plovers and c60 Redshanks.

Two Spotted Flycatchers were still behind the hide, but a Garden Warbler and a couple of Blackcaps, Whitethroats and Chiffchaffs was, otherwise, it for the hedges, whilst a dozen Swallows went over. (AH/CRJ/ABi/BFF/SL et al)

Spotted Flycatcher (above), Spoonbills, Common Tern and Sandwich Terns & Sandwich Terns at Church Norton (AH)

East Side: A Sanderling was out on the mud, along with c120 Ringed Plovers, c50 Dunlin, three Knot, a Greenshank, ten Grey Plovers, three Turnstones, a Whimbrel, 24 Gadwall, 40 Teal, and lots of Oystercatchers and Redshanks, with a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a Yellow-legged Gull also present. (LP)

Knot (above), Sanderling and Ringed Plover & Grey Plover along the East side (LP)

North Wall: A Wheatear was along the wall, and a Garden Warbler was along the path at the side of Owl Copse, but it was generally quiet in the showery and windy weather. A Redstart was still along the bushes at Halsey’s Farm and there were a few Long-tailed Tits, Linnets, a Whitethroat and a Sedge Warbler also about, but otherwise there were just a handful of Swallows and a Sand Martin passing overhead. (LP/CT)

Wheatear at the North Wall (LP)