The overnight snow did not produce the anticapted activity offshore this morning, with little movement and nothing of note. Combined totals below.

  

Red-throated Diver - 8W 1 os

Great-crested Grebe - 19 os

Red-breasted Merganser - 4W 2E 8 os

Brent Geese - 4W

Teal - 1E

Guillemot  1W 1 os

Med Gull - 30

Common Scoter - 2E

Oystercatcher - 3E 1W

Sanderling - 25

Turnstone - 40

Ringed Plover - 2

Golden Plover - 3 Elmer Beach

Stock Dove - c30

Grey Heron - 2

Little Egret - 1

Peregrine - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

Buzzard - 1

Song Thrush - 12+

Yellowhammer - 5

Reed Bunting - 7

Stonechat - 4

Skylark - 40+

Meadow Pipit - 20

Linnet - 15

Goldfinch - 6

 

Sanderling Climping Beach

A Black-throated Diver offshore from the car park was the highlight of a cold bright morning, with bvery little moving offshore. (BA, RG)

Red-throated Diver - 1 os

Diver sp - 1E

Razorbill - 1 os

Auk sp - 2W

Brent Geese - c100

Great-crested Grebe - 2E 9 os

Red-breasted Merganser - 10E 4 os

Gannet 1W 1E

Med Gull - 20

Oystercatcher - 5E 2W

Turnstone - 27W

Ringed Plover - 2W

Sanderling - 1W

Grey Partridge - 1

Yellowhammer - 6+

Reed Bunting - 12+

Skylark - 30+

Linnet - 7

Meadow Pipit - 20

Grey Wagtail - 1

Chiffchaff - 1

Yellowhammer

Reed Bunting

 

Several reports from today resulting in good coverage in grey cold overcast conditions.

Redshank - 2

Common Sandpiper - 1

Grey Plover - 17W

Golden Plover - heard

Turnstone - 11

Red-breasted Merganser - 7 os

Great-crested Grebe - 4

Little Egret - 2

Stonechat - 5

Reed Bunting - 5

Yellowhammer - 3

Grey Wagtail - 1

Linnet - 8

Meadow Pipit - c50+

Skylark - 30

Goldcrest - 2

Pied Wagtail - 15

Song Thrush - 3

Bullfinch - heard

Siskin - heard

Peregrine - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

Kestrel - 2

Redshank river

Common Sandpiper river

The highlight of this morning seawatch was 3 Velvet Scoter off Climping Beach. (RP)

Razorbill - 2

Great-crested Grebe - 8

Red-breasted Merganser - 6

Common Scoter - 1

Velvet Scoter - 3

Sanderling - 3

Turnstone - 13

Med Gull - 6

Stonechat - 2

Meadow Pipit - 30

Kingfisher - 1

Set-a-side, 6 Yellowhammer, 1 Reed Bunting, 1 Corn Bunting, 1 pair Stonechat, 2 Skylark.

Long Wood 1 Jay

Beach, 17 Grey Plover, 12 Pied Wagtail, 2 Med Gull

Offshore, 4 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Great-crested Grebe

Bailiffscourt  A few Great & Blue Tits, 6 Blackbird 1 Goldcrest (CJ)

Quite offshore this morning, with just the usual Great-crested Grebe and Red-breasted Merganser offshore. A Golden Plover calling over longwood west, Peregrine and good numbers of Reed Bunting present in the setaside by the campsite. 

Highlight for (OM) this morning was 3 Firecrest in the wood west of Poole Place.

Firecrest (OM)

The cold front found plenty of interest on the sea this morning, with a  Whooper Swan west at 08:50 and 3 Goldeneye not seen locally for a while, 5 Gadwall and a Slavonion Grebe drifting offshore from the car park.

Whooper Swan - 1

Slavonian Grebe - 1

Goldeneye - 3 

Gadwall - 5

Shelduck - 11 8 os 3W

Teal - 10 os

Wigeon - 7 os

Common Scoter - 27E

Red-breasted Merganser - 19 os

Great-crested Grebe - 20 os

Brent Geese - 29W 8E

Guillemot - 1

Oysercatcher - 2W 1E

Grey Plover - 8 on beach

Lapwing - 1E

Turnstone - 25W

Little Egret - 2

Kestrel - 3

Starling - 55N

Pied Wagtail - 11

Skylark - 17

Stonechat - 3

From the river at Tortingington found 2 Marsh Harrier, 17 Mute Swan, Black Swan, 3 Buzzard, 2 Little Egret, 1 Snipe and c100 Linnet.

Grey overcast morning with good numbers of Skylark & Meadow Pipit present with very little movement offshore.

Yellowhammer - 3

Grey Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 12

Reed Bunting - 7

Stonechat - 3

Skylark - c60

Meadow Pipit - c70

Cetti's Warbler - 1 heard

Red-breasted Merganser - 15 os

Great-crested Grebe - 7 os

Auk sp 2W

Diver sp - 1W

Gannet - 4E

Med Gull - 1 os

Oystercatcher - 1W

Ringed Plover - 16W

Turnstone - 15W

Little Egret - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

An unexpected suprise with two Long-tailed Duck flying east at Climping Beach at 08:00 this morning, a Great-northern Diver west and a Red Kite late morning east over Bailiffscourt.

Long-tailed Duck - 2E

Great-northern Diver - 1W

Red-throated Diver - 1E

Diver sp - 1 os

Great-crested Grebe - 15

Red-breasted Merganser - 3 os

Brent Geese - 3E 2W

Wigeon - c100 W

Gannet - 2W

Turnstone - 3W

Grey Plover - 16W

Mute Swan - 7E

Little Egret - 2

Grey Heron - 1

Red Kite - 1

Peregrine - 1

Buzzard - 2

Kestrel - 2

Reed Bunting - 3

Skylark - 24

Meadow Pipit - 25

Stonechat - 4

Pied Wagtail - 7

Goldcrest - 3

Jay - 2

Great-spotted Woodecker - 2

Green Woodpecker - 3

Stock Dove - 5

More Yellowhammers seen this morning with flocks of six seen twice around the old camp site and then again around the paddock. A short -eared Owl seen north of the camp site pursed by corvids. RP & ES

Buzzard - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

Short-eared Owl - 1

Grey Heron - 2

Little Egret - 1

Brent Geese - 4W

Red-breasted Merganser - 1

Common Scoter - 4

Great-crested Grebe - 8

Skylark - c30+

Meadow Pipit - 20

Grey Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 10

Green Woodpecker - 1

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Stonechat - 2

Song Thrush - 3

Reed Bunting - 4

Yellowhammer - 6+

Good variety this morning in grey cloudy windless conditions with a Black-throated Diver offshore at Climping and two Swallow west late morning.

Black-throated Diver - 1 os

Red-throated Diver - 1W

Shag - 1 os

Razorbill - 2W 

Auk sp - 6W 2E

Common Scoter - 12E

Red-breasted Merganser - 2E 3W 3 os

Great-crested Grebe - 7W 2E

Gannet - 47W

Med Gull - 1W

Brent Geese - 2W 1E 16 os

Grey Plover - 21W

Ringed Plover - 19W

Osytercatcher 1W 1E

Curlew - 1W

Turnstone - 13W 

Swallow - 2W

Grey Wagtail - 1

Pied Wagtail - 18

Meadow Pipit - 25

Linnet - 5

Skylark - 18

Goldfinch - 14

Siskin - heard

Song Thrush - 1

Stonechat - 5

Cetti's Warbler - heard

Stock Dove - 9

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1

Sparrowhawk - 2

Kestrel - 1

Buzzard - 1

Grey Partridge - 1

Great-spotted Woodpecker