A fairly quiet morning at Pulborough once the fog eventually began to clear. Highlights were three each of Ruff and Dunlin among the Lapwings on the North Brooks plus the usual throng of Black-tailed Godwits which today numbered somewhere in the region of four hundred. Also of note were three Shelduck, three Stonechat, the now regular Little Grebe at West Mead and heard only Kingfisher and Water Rail from the Hanger/Little Hanger. I left early afternoon and so missed the two Black Swans which turned up at Winpenny later on. Obviously not tickable as my patch year 150 but still would be nice to see, hopefully they'll stick around...
In the afternoon I headed down to Arundel with Kate for a bit of lunch and I couldn't resist a quick look in
Kim's Bookshop which has a mouth-watering selection of bird books in the back room upstairs. I treated myself to a copy of
Birds of the Atlantic Islands which will come in handy for our belated honeymoon trip to Madeira in May
We then headed on to Climping for a walk along the (surprisingly busy!) beach. Despite the amount of people and dogs there was still a decent selection of birds on offer - probably the 'birdiest' I've seen the place since we moved down this way last year. A flock of c.340
Brent Geese flew east over the sea, at least thirty
Turnstones were feeding in the shingle or roosting out on the breakwaters while at least the same number of
Mediterranean Gulls were around, either on the sea or feeding with
Black-headed Gulls,
Carrion Crows and a few
Buzzards in the arable field.
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| Turnstones |
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| Turnstone |
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| Med Gulls |
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| Brent Geese |
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