Saturday, 17th January: After more overnight rain, a slowly improving morning, quite mild and with a bit of sunshine at times in a fairly light southerly breeze.....
Selsey Bill: A Little Gull was lingering fairly distantly offshore this morning and a Velvet Scoter went west early on, with good counts of 21 Red-throated Divers and 52 Common Scoters on the sea. Full log below. (JA/SH/BI/AH)
(0740-0910hrs) S, F2-3)
Red-throated Diver - 16E, 31W, 21os
diver sp - 1W
Great Crested Grebe - 1W
Gannet - 1E, 5W
Shag - 1E
Brent Goose - 5E
Velvet Scoter - 1W
Common Scoter - 4E, 52os
Red-breasted Merganser - 3E, 3W, 6os
Oystercatcher - 1E
Turnstone - 4E, 55W
Little Gull - 1os
Kittiwake - 1W
Sandwich Tern - 2E, 4W, 1os
Razorbill - 2E, 5W
auk sp - 2E, 2W
Common Scoters (above), Red-throated Diver & Red-breasted Merganser at the Bill (AH)
Ferry Pool: There were three Ruff on the flooded fields this morning, along with a Spotted Redshank, c125 Black-tailed Godwits, 1000+ Lapwings, c50 Shovelers, c100 Teal and c300 Wigeon, plus a Marsh Harrier over.
(LP/IH/MJa/AH/BI/MP et al)
Ruff and Lapwings (above) & Black-tailed Godwits at Ferry (AH)
West side: Half a dozen Red-breasted Mergansers were in the harbour on the high tide and a Dartford Warbler was along the path. (MP)
Honer Reservoir: There was a huge flock of c200 Fieldfares, with c25 Redwings among them around the reservoir and adjacent trees late this morning, though they were very flighty and mobile, not settling anywhere for long.
Apart from that the reservoir itself as bird-less and there was nothing else to report. (AH)
Fieldfares (above) & Redwings at Honer Reservoir (AH)
North Wall: There were vast numbers of birds around White's Creek and the harbour on the rising tide this morning, including c1000 Brent Geese, c40 Avocets, c500 Golden Plovers, c200 Black-tailed Godwits and perhaps 2000 Lapwings, with more coming in all the time.
There were also c25 Pintail among many Wigeon and Teal, plus c40 Canada Geese, whilst a Peregrine went over, a Rock Pipit and a handful of Reed Buntings were along the wall, a Water Rail was in the paddocks and the pair of Marsh Harriers were over the reeds. (AH et al)
Water Rail (above), Rock Pipit, Lapwings and Golden Plovers & Black-tailed Godwits and Lapwings at the North Wall (AH)
Drayton Pits: A Bittern was seen during a WeBS count on the South Pit before it flew towards the North Pit this morning - the first since 2023. For those unfamiliar with the siituation at these pits, they are privately owned, believed by a property company, and the owners are unco-operative, with new signage appearing and no access permitted to members of the public and/or birders. Anyone thinking of visiting is advised to try and view from outside the boundaries. (OM)
Chichester GPs: On Ivy Lake this morning there were 88 Greylag Geese and four Mallard, and on Nunnery Pit there were four Tufted Ducks, with a Goldcrest in the hedges. (CRJ)
Medmerry: Ham Farm - There were at least three Corn Buntings here this morning, along with a few Yellowhammers and a Stonechat, plus three Roe Deer, whilst there were lots of Lapwings and Brent Geese in the tidal area. (EB)
Corn Buntings (above), Yellowhammer, Stonechat, Lapwings and Brent Geese & Roe Deer at Medmerry (EB)
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