Only for the second time this year I headed to Selsey Bill. The weather was great, bright blue skies- relatively warm at 12 degrees and a moderate westerly. I think a lot of seabirds probably headed South and are still in the Bay of Biscay as no Gannets appeared all morning, and although still early for any Spring movements, normally seabirds have started to slowly move North in March - which is only a week away !.
The morning's list was fairly sparse with 1 Great Northern Diver, 2 Red-Throated Divers, 1 Fulmar, 2 Slavonian Grebes, 3 Common Scoter, 1 Razorbill, 1 Curlew, 7 Turnstone, 1 Med Gull and 2 Sandwich Terns.
I called in at Ambersham Common on the way home but saw very little - They ( the NT?) have done quite a bit of clearance work which in the long term might pay dividends - but has probably scared off a few birds in the making. Normal fayre at home, although the spring-like feel has prompted a pair of Long-tailed Tits to be active around a Mahonia bush as if nest building. A small flock of c20 Siskins and 5 Goldfinches are now raiding the Niger feeders daily (which have been untouched for 4 months). A Linnet flyover and the 'normal' raptors were visible at lunchtime with a good garden list of Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Treecreeper, Pied Wagtail, Song Thrush, Robin, Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch !!, a Redwing, Marsh Tit, Stock Dove, 2 House Sparrow and the corvids.
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