Sunday, April 1, 2012

West Sussex and Hampshire

Friday 30th March

Today decided on a trip to the wetland centre at Arundel took the bus via Littlehampton as the road works on the A27 are still going on it turned into just the afternoon still a bit quite on the migrant front only a few birds of note Sedge Warbler and Willow Warbler Cwtti’s numbers are good at least 5 birds calling plus plenty of common birds from the reed bed loop over the hanger I had Common Buzzard, Sparrowhawk and 2 Peregrines gave up even thinking about getting the bus back so took the train to Barnham then the bus.

Saturday 31st March

Trip into Hampshire today starting at Gosport there where very few gull around the lake mostly Black Headed and a few Herring Gulls, We then had a look at the creek and after a short time we found the Ringed Billed Gull some way out just to far for a picture so it was back to the car for a cup of coffee while having this we had a Osprey fly over head so 2 more added for the year

Our next stop was Farlington Marshes LNR we took a walk to the information hut the had a walk around the bushes lots of finches Green, Gold and Chaffinch plus Dunnock and Wren, We the took a look at the lake and after a short time I found the Garganey so ending a pleasant days birding

Year list now stands at 188

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