Saturday, 4th October: A mostly bright, but cool, morning dominated by the gale force westerly that persisted throughout....
Selsey Bill: A distant Sooty Shearwater and two equally distant Balearic Shearwaters west and the Great Northern Diver offshore were the highlights of a generally quiet morning. Full log below. (SH/BI/PB/AHu/AH/IP/MRe et al)
(0645-0900hrs) (WNW, F8)
Great Northern Diver - 1os
Sooty Shearwater - 1W (0710hrs)
Balearic Shearwater - 2W
Gannet - 7E, 18W
Common Scoter - 2E
Oystercatcher - 1W
Grey Plover - 6W
Turnstone - 5
Mediterranean Gull - 1W, 1os
Kittiwake - 26W
Sandwich Tern - 1W
auk sp - 12E, 4W
Swallow - 10W
Pied Wagtail - 3W
Meadow Pipit - 15N
Mediterranean Gull (above) & Turnstone at the Bill (AH)
Ferry Pool: There were just c40 Lapwings and c60 Teal on the pool this morning. (AH)
Lapwings and Teal on the Ferry (AH)
Mill Pond Marsh: It was just ducks this morning, namely c20 Shovelers, c40 Mallards and c70 Teal. (AH/IP)
Shovelers and Teal on Mill Pond Marsh (AH)
North Wall: Seven Stonechats were around the hedges at Owl Point this morning, with a couple of Chiffchaffs, a Cetti's Warbler, a Grey Wagtail and two Reed Buntings along the wall, four Cattle Egrets in the fields, a Common Sandpiper in the harbour and a Swallow and a Kestrel over. (S&SaH/PB)
Church Norton: At least 30 Ringed Plovers and Dunlin and a handful of Knot and Grey Plovers were on the last vestiges of mud before high tide, with a few Pintail, Wigeon and Teal on the water, whilst a Peregrine went over and a Kingfisher flew along the sheltered hedges, where a dozen or so Chiffchaffs were among a big, mobile mixed flock of Long-tailed, Great and Blue Tits. (AH/AHu/MRe et al)
Peregrine (above), Dunlin, Pintail, Chiffchaff & Long-tailed Tit at Church Norton (AH)
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