20th July 2020 - Selsey Peninsula

No repeat of the tern bonanza of a week ago at Church Norton which was very quiet bar an increase in Dunlin(ca.175) as well as 68 Mediterranean Gulls, an adult Common Gull, four Sand Martin and a Whimbrel. Next we parked at Ham and walked from the RSPB Medmerry car park to the Stilt Pool and back. Waders on the Stilt Pool were three Black-tailed Godwits, 13 Dunlin, a Common Sandpiper, a Redshank and two Greenshank. Also a female Gadwall with three downy ducklings, several Mediterranean Gulls, a Peregrine and an 'interesting' Cormorant (if Cormorants can ever be described as that) with contrasting white underparts, (see image below). Our final port of call was the North Wall at Pagham Harbour where there were four Cattle Egrets (3 adults and a juvenile) in the high tide Little Egret roost, a Red Kite circling over Owl Copse, 50 Black-tailed Godwits on the Breech Pool, 30 Mediterranean Gulls, four Whimbrel and two Willow Warblers.

Little Tern, Pagham Harbour

'Interesting' Cormorant, Stilt Pool, RSPB Medmerry