Very warm in sheltered spots and cold and very windy out in the open, with the strong NE wind gusting to near gale-force at times.

 

Bit and pieces today, though nothing very startling. I did just 2 hrs on and off, list below….(OM)

Red-throated Diver 1W, dropped onto sea
Bar-tailed Godwit – 45E
Whimbrel – 5E
Sanderling – 22, most resting on rock islands before flying off
Dunlin – 1E
Oystercatcher – 2 on rocks
Turnstone - 4 on rocks
Gannet – 2E & 3W
Sandwich Tern – 4E & 10W
Little Tern – 1W, quite possibly 2
Great Black-backed Gull – 6
Swallow – 16 flew in N from sea
Whitethroat – 3 in hedges behind beach

Linnet - 4

Kestrel campsite

Out late morning in bright sunny windy conditions, Chiffchaff, Blackcap and Whitethroat present in good numbers, but nothing unexpected in areas out of the wind.

Lesser Whitethroat - 1 heard camp site

Red-legged Partridge - 1 south side longwood

Swift - 6

Sand Martin - 2

Swallow - 30+

Stonechat - 1

Cetti's Warbler - 3

Reed Warbler - 10

Sedge Warbler - 4

Yellowhammer - 3

Reed Bunting - 4

Whimbrel - 10 golf course

Bart-tailed Godwit - 3E

Great-crested Grebe - 3 os

Sandwich Tern - 5W

Med Gull - 2

Little Egret - 4

Grey Heron - 1

Not very much offshore today in the blustery conditions, the clear highlights being 2 Avocets east at 0843hrs, and a Great Skua heading west, half way out and upsetting the local gulls. Other sightings were:- (OM)

Great Black-backed Gull  - 9 (6E, 1W, 2os)
Whimbrel – 1E
Oystercatcher – 6 on rock islands
Gannet – 2W
Gt Crested Grebe – 2 o/s
Sandwich Tern – 23 (4E and 19W)
Swift – 3N from sea
Whitethroat – 3 in bushes behind beach
Linnet – 4

Avocet east off Poole Place

Another fine sunny morning with less wind, found Wheatears into double figures along the beach. Frustratingly I did miss the seven Pomarine Skua reported earlier from Selsey, moving just too far out for Climping, but found some consolation in the form of a Great Skua tracking east from Poole Place.

Whimbrel - 23E

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1E

Dunlin - 3E

Sanderling - 20E

Oystercatcher - 13E

Common Scoter 8E

Shelduck 3E 1W

Red-breasted Merganser - 2W

Ringed Plover - 2

Little Egret - 7

Med Gull - 12

Sandwich Tern - 40E 30W

Gannet - 7E 4W

Swallow - c50+

Swift - 2E

Yellowhammer - 8

Cetti's Warbler - 4

Reed Warbler - 4

Sedge Warbler - 2

Willow Warbler - 3

Reed Bunting - 6

Whitethroat - nc

Blackcap - nc

Chiffchaff - nc

Mistle Thrush - 2

Green Woodpecker - 2

Wheatear 

Yellowhammer