Friday, 10th July: Yet another very warm, sunny morning, with the moderate north-easterly breeze offering just a little respite.....
Selsey Bill: A decent-sized flock of 25 Common Scoters went east this morning, along with a few Swallows and Sand Martins. Full log below. (AH/IP)
(0650-0805hrs) (NE, F3-4)
Gannet - 1W
Common Scoter - 25E
Mediterranean Gull - 1E, 1W
Sandwich Tern - 60os
Little Tern - 1os
Swift - 12
Swallow - 8E
Sand Martin - 14E
House Martin - 10
Pied Wagtail - 2E
Sandwich Tern at the Bill (AH)
Ferry Pool: There were three adult Little Ringed Plovers and six young birds of varying ages on the pool this morning, along with the Shelduck family, six adult and five young Avocets and two Lapwings. (AH)
Little Ringed Plovers (above), Avocet & Lapwing at the Ferry (AH)
East Side: There was a bit of a selection of waders along the east side around high tide this morning, including nine Knot, 61 Dunlin, two Turnstones, 36 Grey Plovers, six Bar-tailed Godwits, a handful of Black-tailed Godwits, a Whimbrel, 25 Curlews, seven Lapwings and c50 Redshanks.
There were also c20 Little Terns feeding in the harbour, with the pair of Mute Swans and six cygnets still in White's Creek and ten Sand Martins and 20 Swallows went over. (AWi)
Medmerry: Easton Lane to the Stilt Pool - There were five nearly fledged young Common Terns on the rafts, with similar of just-hatched young and a few more already fledged among the dozen or so adult birds, and half a dozen Sandwich Terns, including three juveniles, dropped in on the Stilt Pool, where there were also a pair of Oystercatchers with a chick, five Lapwings, two Greenshank and two Common Sandpipers, with another of the latter by the poplars, too.
At least 100 Sand Martins and 50 Swallows were over the pool and the banks, all put up at one point by a low-flying and fast Hobby, but the banks just held the usual mix of c20 Whitethroats, Skylarks and Yellowhammers and c50 Linnets, but not too much else. (AH/GR/P Potts et al)
Common Terns (above), Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Sandwich Terns, Sand Martin, Yellowhammer, Whitethroat & Linnet at Medmerry (AH)
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