A satisfying morning's birding along the Adur between Coombes and Botolphs featured three local year ticks: a
Canada Goose with a flock of nine
Greylags overhead, and a flock of 32
Fieldfares. An adult male
Peregrine was on the cement works tower. Other observations included four
Little Grebes, a
Grey Wagtail, five
Meadow Pipits, three
Reed Buntings, two
Grey Herons, two
Little Egrets, four
Buzzards, 97
Common Gulls, 25
Collared Doves (including a flock of 20), five
Great Spotted Woodpeckers, two
Green Woodpeckers, three
Kestrels, 120
Rooks, two
Skylarks, five
Goldcrests and nine
Mallards.
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| Greylag Geese and Canada Goose |
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| male Green Woodpecker |
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| adult male Peregrine |
