As I stepped out of the door this morning, a
Tree Pipit flew over the garden, a harbinger of a quite extraordinary movement shortly thereafter of 33 birds over Highdown in just under three hours - my record count anywhere. This push included a couple of flocks of half-a-dozen, while a small handful of individuals dropped in for a short while.A
Spotted Flycatcher, two
Yellow Wagtails, a
Reed Warbler, a
Sand Martin and three
Lesser Whitethroats made for a rewarding session. Not to mention back-up including six
Willow Warblers, 14
Whitethroats, a
Swift, 25
Swallows, six
Chiffchaffs, five
Skylarks, two
Nuthatches, a
Kestrel, three
Green Woodpeckers, a
Great Spotted Woodpecker, a
Common Gull, a
Buzzard and two
Bullfinches.
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| Tree Pipit at Highdown |
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| Lesser Whitethroat at Highdown |
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| Spotted Flycatcher at Highdown |
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| Linnet at Highdown |
Visiting the Adur Estuary later, I scanned from the toll bridge and strolled to just north of the A27 and back south a little way. A juvenile
Yellow-legged Gull on the mud appeared to be the same as one of Sunday's Brooklands birds (bird 2).
Ringed Plovers numbered 24 birds and further birds logged included a
Willow Warbler, five
Grey Herons, a
Little Egret, an
Oystercatcher, a
Dunlin, six
Swallows, three
Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a
Buzzard.
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| juvenile Yellow-legged Gull on the Adur Estuary [seemingly bird 2 from Sunday at Brooklands] |
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| Grey Herons on the Adur Estuary |
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| Buzzard over the Adur Estuary |
