A nice day with Nick B and Gareth J I've been hoping for a
Slavonian Grebe on the sea and scanning hard so it was a delight to finally clock one distantly offshore this morning. 54
Red-breasted Mergansers, 32
Great Crested Grebes and a
Kittiwake were also offshore and nine
Sandwich Terns were around. I saw my first two
Wheatears of the year - both males, one a new arrival on the beach and the other has apparently been around. Seven
Mediterranean Gulls (including single 2CY and 3CY) were in the fields. Waders included eight
Oystercatchers, 20
Turnstones, a
Ringed Plover, four
Dunlin, nine
Grey Plovers and 22
Sanderlings. Two
Meadow Pipits, four
Skylarks, a
Redwing, a
Buzzard and a
Sparrowhawk were also logged. Later in the day, while tidying up at our West Worthing home I heard a
Firecrest peeping away in the garden and eventually got nice views and it flicked around in an overhanging tree!
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| Sandwich Terns at Goring Gap |
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| 2CY Buzzard over Goring Gap |
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| Mediterranean Gulls (3CY and 2 adults) with Black-headed Gulls and Herring Gull at Goring Gap |
