Cycling through Widewater was quiet, with just four
Sandwich Terns offshore, a singing
Whitethroat and a lone 2cy
Mute Swans during my brief stop there.
It was a beautifully calm morning at the Adur Estuary, where I had a
Common Sandpiper, two
Oystercatchers, two
Mute Swans, two
Little Egrets, a
Sparrowhawk, a
Cetti's Warbler, a
Swallow and a
Reed Warbler.
I continued walking along the Adur beyond the A27 bridge to the Botolphs bridge and returned on the other bank. A lot of birds were singing along this stretch this morning, including a
Cuckoo (my first one
seen this year), eight
Sedge Warblers, two
Cetti's Warblers, seven
Reed Warblers, nine
Reed Buntings, a
Lesser Whitethroat, nine
Whitethroats, seven
Skylarks and four
Chiffchaffs. 13
House Martins were busy over the river opposite Lancing College and I had six
Swallows. A
Yellow Wagtail flew north - there seems to have been a late mini-pulse of these. Other birds included a
Peregrine, a
Common Sandpiper, a juvenile
Grey Wagtail, four
Swifts and a
Red Kite.
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male Cuckoo at Coombes |
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Reed Warbler at Coombes |
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Common Sandpiper by the brickworks |
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Mallard brood by the brickworks |