It wasn't a particularly early start and half way to Pulborough I realised I'd forgotten my bins, so an enforced delay to the start but even when I arrived at Pulborough just before 10am there weren't many people around. I particularly like Pulborough in early Spring as it is a place where migrants can pitch in briefly.
It wasn't as warm as yesterday but was still fairly bright, and awash with birdsong. Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs were particularly vocal, Green and Great-spotted Wodpeckers, Nuchatch and Treecreeper, Goldfinch, Greenfinch Chaffinch and Linnets all seen on the first bit of pathway, and unexpectedly a very early Whitethroat in a Blackthorn bush. The brooks held lingering waterfowl in Wigeon, Teal, Gadwall and Shoveler, there were plenty of Little Egrets a single Little-ringed Plover and a group of hirundines dropped in when it clouded over with c30 Sand Martins, 2 House Martins and 1 Swallow.
I moved onto Coldwatham, where the flooded area held similar birds to Pulborough, the sewage works had singing Willow Warbler and a group of 8 Swallows flew through with a Sand Martin, with the highlight being a Sedge Warbler which gave short bursts of its song before showing itself.
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