It felt like a very quiet session this morning and I didn't think I'd be coming home with any particular highlight - though it was nice to catch up with Gareth J who joined me for a while. There's almost always something to define the outing though, even if it's not rare. Today it was a fine male
Stonechat which flew behind me and briefly alighted at the seaward end of the Plantation, just behind my vismig point! I wasn't expecting the first of the autumn for a little while... A flock of nine
Shelducks flying west was also noteworthy, and three
Common Scoters flew past. Also offshore were seven
Gannets, two
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, eight
Sandwich Terns and five
Mediterranean Gulls. Four
Little Egrets were on the beach and a juvenile
Green Woodpecker was noted. I logged four
Swallows and two
Swifts west and Gareth had another Swallow. There were 22 local
Swifts over the garden in West Worthing late evening.
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| male Stonechat |
