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

 

Records from (DB) of a Little-ringed Plover calling and seen twice over the setaside this morning, and a Swift over the golf course. 

Sea watch Climping beach from 15:10

Little-ringed Plover - 1 setaside

Wheatear - 3

Great -crested Grebe - 3

Med Gull - 8

Gannet - 5E 2W

Sandwich Tern - 34E 5W

Commic Tern - 2E

Whimbrel - 37E

Common Scoter - 7E

Swallow - 15

Kestrel - 1

Buzzard -1

Cetti's Warbler - 1

Grey Seal - 1

LRP in the setaside 15:00

A very cold cloudy morning found it very quiet around the bushes in the north east wind.

Garden Warbler - 1 (DB)

Whitethroat - 17

Willow Warbler - 3

Chiffchaff - 10

Blackcap - 25

Reed Warbler - 5

Sedge Warbler - 4

Cetti's Warbler - 3

Wheatear - 1

Reed Bunting - 10

Yellowhammer - 4

Stonechat - 2

Swallow - 11

Sand Martin - 1

Peregrine - 2

Buzzard - 4

Little Egret - 6

Great-crested Grebe - 3

Shoveler - 5E

Whimbrel - 3E

Med Gull - 8

Whitethroat Mill Road

Sedge Warbler Ferry Rd Rife

Out again sea watching from 14:30 at Climping Beach in a brisk chilly easterly wind.

Bar-tailed Godwit - 33E

Whimbrel - 4E

Sanderling - 11E

Sandwich Tern - c30E

Gannet - 7W 4E

Swallow - 4

Sandwich Tern Climping Beach

 

Records for the 20th from OM. Still quiet offshore but a few bits of interest this morning, mainly around the usual area near Poole Place.

2 Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) offshore all morning

2 Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) on beach

4 Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) flew east offshore

1 Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica) flew east offshore

13 Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) 3 flew east offshore and 10 flew west

6 Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) flew west, fairly high

1 Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) on beach

5 Gannet (Morus bassanus) heading west offshore, with a couple of them stopping to fish for a while before moving on.

1 Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) feeding around rock islands

1 Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) flew east offshore at some distance

2 Swallow (Hirundo rustica) flew north from the sea

3 Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) in bushes and set-aside corner at back of the beach

1 Lesser Whitethroat (Curruca curruca) one early morning had clearly just arrived in bushes at the back of the beach - seen and heard singing for a while at close range to observer

4 Whitethroat (Curruca communis) along hedges and set-aside corner and at Poole Place..singing and showing, some newly arrived

1 Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) newly arrived bird dropped in on beach - vegetated shingle

6 Linnet (Linaria cannabina) visiting vegetated shingle along bea

 Had a look around Atherington/ Bailiffs this morning, trying for Pied Fly and R. Ouzel but as you can guess I failed! Cheers OM

 Herewith my list….

Wheatear - 1

Blackcap – 8

Song Thrush – 3

Willow warbler – 2

Chiffchaff - 5

Whitethroat – 8

Cetti’s warbler – 3

Reed warbler – 1

Gt Spot Woodpecker – 3 (1 drumming)

Greenfinch – 6

Little Egret – 2  (one Atherington pool)

Med Gull – 2W

Kestrel – 1

Skylark – 8

Moorhen – pair Atherington pool

Buzzard - 1

Little Egret

Very quiet offshore this morning with 24W Sandwich Tern, 1W Gannet, 2W 1E Whimbrel ,1W Curlew, 6E Common Scoter, 1E Diver sp, a couple of Swallow in off the sea and 1 Wheatear.

I spent most of the morning along the beach in a chilly southwest wind hopeful of some quality passage, not to be, with just a few bits and bobs added.

Great-northern Diver - 1E

Red-throated Diver 1E

Brent Geese 34E

Gannet - 45W 1E

Common Scoter 5E

Sandwich Tern - 32W 

Commic Tern - 1E

Med Gull - 8W

Whimbrel - 2W

Bar-tailed Godwit - 1E

Oystercatcher - 4W

Wheatear - 1

Swallow - 1

Reed Warbler - 2

With the wind from the SSE the hopeful sea watch didn't materialise. However, we did log over a hundred Scoter moving east although distant. The first Artic Skua of the spring picked up from OM at Poole Place was a nice, but still very disappointing being the second week of April.  With Sandwich Tern 35, 40 Med Gull and 11 Gannet all west, very little else occurred.  My first Whimbrel of the spring was a heard only record, 2 Great-crested Grebe offshore and singles of Swallow and Wheatear, brought an end to the proceedings.

A cold bright sunny morning found me wandering around the golf catching up with a few year ticks.

 

Reed Warbler - 1

Sedge Warbler - 3

Wheatear - 4

Cetti's Warbler - 6

Willow Warbler - 4

Chiffchaff - 11

Whitethroat - 12

Blackcap - 18

Reed Bunting - 4

Swallow - 4

Linnet - c80

Song Thrush - 6

Jay - 2 

Green Woodpecker - 1

Sparrowhawk - 1

Buzzard - 5

Little Egret - 5

Sandwich Tern - 3E

Gannet - 1E

Med Gull - 9

Great-crested Grebe - 1

Sedge Warbler Golf course

 

Wheatear Cudlow Field

Reed Bunting Golf Course

Blackcap Bailiffscourt

A Short-eared Owl being mobbed corvids north of Poole Place was the undoubted highlight in a fine bright sunny morning.

Whitethroat - 4

Willow Warbler - 2

Chiffchaff - 11

Blackcap - 14

Cetti's Warbler - 2 hrd

Yellowhammer - 3

Reed Bunting - 2

Linnet - 25

Mistle Thrush - 2

Song Thrush - 5

Swallow - 9

House Martin - 1

Green Woodpecker - 2

Great-spotted Woodpecker - 3

Jay - 4

Buzzard - 2

Kestrel - 2

Little Egret - 5

Whitethroat Mill Road

Willow Warbler Bailiffscourt

Blackcap Bailiffscourt

A male Redstart in field beside the new pond this morning, also 4 Willow Warbler and 5 Wheatear in the area. (OM)

Records from yesterday 05/04/26 from (MB)

Swallow - 1

Willow Warbler - 1

Chiffchaff - 6

Cetti's Warbler -3

Blackcap - 3

Stonechat - 2

Wheatear - 8

Yellowhammer - 3

Reed Bunting - 3

Linnet - 14

Meadow Pipit - 1

Med Gull - 5

4 Avocet on the sea off Cudlow field on Wednesday 1st April (OM)