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THURSDAY 28 JANUARY
Another cold day and another very grey day
MANSFIELD FARM, UXBRIDGE (BUCKS)
A RED KITE was being harassed by a Carrion Crow just west of the M25 at 0807 hours.
Single LITTLE EGRETS were seen in Sussex just north of Burgess Hill at 0913 and in fields with cattle south of the A281 just west of Clappers Lane in Poynings.
SEVEN SISTERS COUNTRY PARK (EAST SUSSEX)
The solitary female GREATER SCAUP was showing very well on the easternmost of the two small lagoons 100 yards SE of the Golden Galleon restaurant/pub and just east of the river, easily visible from the footpath that leads south alongside the river from the pub car park.
IVY LAKE AND WESTHAMPNETT LAKES COMPLEX (WEST SUSSEX)
The most significant event was the huge numbers of Common Coots on these lakes, presumably birds which dispersed from sites further north and east during the freeze. Sample counts included 796 on Ivy Lake, Chichester, and 522 on Westhampnett Sailing Lake.
LANGSTONE HARBOUR/BUDDS FARM (HAMPSHIRE)
Spent 45 minutes 'scoping the harbour from the Budds Farm mound, with the following species encountered -:
Great Crested Grebes (14)
Little Grebe (11)
*BLACK-NECKED GREBE (a tightly-knit flock of 19 birds, all diving simultaneously, west of Hayling Oyster Beds)
Dark-bellied Brent Geese (86)
Common Shelducks (330)
Eurasian Wigeon, Common Teal, Gadwall and Shoveler but no sign of the North American Green-winged Teal, particularly on Budds Farm
Common Goldeneye (24)
Red-breasted Merganser (33)
*VELVET SCOTER (first-winter drake in the main channel west of Hayling Oyster Beds)
Large numbers of waders feeding on the ebbing tide, including Oystercatchers, Eurasian Curlews, Common Redshank, 55 Grey Plover, 35 Black-tailed Godwits, 15 Bar-tailed Godwits, a few Red Knot and 2,700+ Dunlin.
HASLAR CREEK AND WALPOLE PARK LAKE, GOSPORT (HAMPSHIRE)
No sign of the adult Ring-billed Gull late afternoon but 9 Common Gulls, 5 argenteus Herring Gulls and 18 Dark-bellied Brent Geese.
HMS SULTAN PLAYING FIELDS
The adult BLACK BRANT was showing very well with 288 Dark-bellied Brent Geese just north of the roundabout on the south end of the playing fields.
Another cold day and another very grey day
MANSFIELD FARM, UXBRIDGE (BUCKS)
A RED KITE was being harassed by a Carrion Crow just west of the M25 at 0807 hours.
Single LITTLE EGRETS were seen in Sussex just north of Burgess Hill at 0913 and in fields with cattle south of the A281 just west of Clappers Lane in Poynings.
SEVEN SISTERS COUNTRY PARK (EAST SUSSEX)
The solitary female GREATER SCAUP was showing very well on the easternmost of the two small lagoons 100 yards SE of the Golden Galleon restaurant/pub and just east of the river, easily visible from the footpath that leads south alongside the river from the pub car park.
IVY LAKE AND WESTHAMPNETT LAKES COMPLEX (WEST SUSSEX)
The most significant event was the huge numbers of Common Coots on these lakes, presumably birds which dispersed from sites further north and east during the freeze. Sample counts included 796 on Ivy Lake, Chichester, and 522 on Westhampnett Sailing Lake.
LANGSTONE HARBOUR/BUDDS FARM (HAMPSHIRE)
Spent 45 minutes 'scoping the harbour from the Budds Farm mound, with the following species encountered -:
Great Crested Grebes (14)
Little Grebe (11)
*BLACK-NECKED GREBE (a tightly-knit flock of 19 birds, all diving simultaneously, west of Hayling Oyster Beds)
Dark-bellied Brent Geese (86)
Common Shelducks (330)
Eurasian Wigeon, Common Teal, Gadwall and Shoveler but no sign of the North American Green-winged Teal, particularly on Budds Farm
Common Goldeneye (24)
Red-breasted Merganser (33)
*VELVET SCOTER (first-winter drake in the main channel west of Hayling Oyster Beds)
Large numbers of waders feeding on the ebbing tide, including Oystercatchers, Eurasian Curlews, Common Redshank, 55 Grey Plover, 35 Black-tailed Godwits, 15 Bar-tailed Godwits, a few Red Knot and 2,700+ Dunlin.
HASLAR CREEK AND WALPOLE PARK LAKE, GOSPORT (HAMPSHIRE)
No sign of the adult Ring-billed Gull late afternoon but 9 Common Gulls, 5 argenteus Herring Gulls and 18 Dark-bellied Brent Geese.
HMS SULTAN PLAYING FIELDS
The adult BLACK BRANT was showing very well with 288 Dark-bellied Brent Geese just north of the roundabout on the south end of the playing fields.
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