Started on Friday with an early morning walk on Blackdown from 6.45am-10am Weather was decent and turned out to be hot. What started quiet turned out a reasonable amount of activity.
25+ Chiffchaffs were in a few small groups and at least
3 Willow Warbler.
2 Stonechat and 1 Dartford Warbler were the local contingent otherwise it was largely other migrants with
1 Tree Pipit, 2 Whitethroat, 5+ Spotted Flycatchers, 1 Redstart, 1 Hobby and a few
Swallows made for an interesting morning.
Sunday morning I went to Pagham, the weather turned out to be awful, with strong winds and squally showers and a drop of 10c in the temperature from previous days. I started at the North Wall breach pool at high tide. There was a good gathering of waders roosting on the pool with 4
0 + Black-tailed Godwit, 80+ Redshank. 10 Greenshank, 2 Spotted Redshank, 10 Dunlin, 5 Little Stint, 3 Snipe and
2 Common Sandpipers I'd hoped to find the Curlew Sandpipers which had been reported for a few days but they went missing while I was there, probably cowering from the wind. A
Kingfisher was briefly on one of the posts and it wasn't really weather for passerines but a single
Yellow Wagtail was at the back of the pool and a
Reed Warbler made a dash for cover. The harbour had a few roosting
Grey Plover, Curlew, Knot and Ringed Plover and a single
Yellow-legged Gull amongst the larger Gulls. I had a quick look on the Ferry Pool and around the visitor centre but there was very little there although a distant
Redstart was beyond the Ferry Pool on the back fence line under cover of the Hawthorns. Church Norton was equally windy, and a couple of
Wheatears were being blown around the beach, as the tide dropped a few waders started to move to feed, with more
Dunlin and
Ringed Plover, Turnstone, Black-Tailed Godwit and Grey Plover. A handful of
Sandwich and
Common Terns were feeding in the channels and several
Sand Martins flew through. It was better to be out than not, but the forecasters had another shocker as the weather certainly was unexpected hard work.
Gary, Jenny and the boys stayed on Sunday night, so Gary and I went to Blackdown for an early morning walk on Monday morning. The list was very similar to Friday with
3 Tree Pipits, 1 Redstart ( a smart male this time), 20+ Chiffchaffs, Stonechat, 3+ Spotted Flycatchers, Grey Wagtail and
Siskin.
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| maybe one day a big pine. |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
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| Spotted Flycatcher |
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| Redstart |
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| Little Stint at Pagham breach Pool |
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| Little Egret |
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