Thursday, 19th February: After heavy overnight rain, a dry, but cool and grey morning in a freshening northerly breeze.......
Selsey Bill: A Velvet Scoter dropped in offshore, but it was another quiet morning, otherwise. (AH/IP)
(0755-0855hrs) (NNE, F3)
Red-throated Diver - 1E
Gannet - 1W
Velvet Scoter - 1os
Common Scoter - 1E, 4os
Red-breasted Merganser - 2E, 1os
Turnstone - 11
Common Gull - 1E
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1W
Great Black-backed Gull - 1W, 2os
Red-breasted Merganser at the Bill (AH)
Ferry Pool: A Ruff flew out from the field when the 1000+ Lapwings (including an oddly pale bird) all went up, but there were no other waders about except the Green Sandpiper, and almost al the wildfowl - c60 Shovelers, c80 Teal and c150 Wigeon, plus four Gadwall and ten Shelducks - were all on the flooded fields. (AH)
Green Sandpiper (above) & Lapwings at the Ferry (AH)
Marsh Farm, Sidlesham: A flock of c40 Cattle Egrets were in the flooded field east of the dairy unit, but it was generally slow-going, with just a couple of Yellowhammers and Linnets along Church Farm Lane, a handful of Chaffinches, Greenfinches and Goldfinches in the various cover crops and a few Curlews, Stock Doves and Common Gulls among the commoner species in the fields. (AH)
Cattle Egrets (above), Yellowhammer & Linnet at Marsh Farm, Sidlesham (AH)
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