6th July 2020 - RSPB Pulborough Brooks and RSPB Medmerry

I woke up to a text message that the Spoonbill was back on the North Brooks at Pulborough so I tried again and yet again upon arrival it had gone missing - very frustrating. Birds on the the North Brooks consisted of much of the same as the previous afternoon except for a roosting adult Lesser Black-backed Gull.

After finishing up at Pulborough, I headed down to Medmerry. At the Poplers a Common Tern fishing over the creek as well as 21 Redshank and a Greenshank roosting on the muddy edges. Between here and the Stilt Pool I added four Reed Warblers, two Little Egrets, six Yellowhammers, a Kestrel, three Swifts, 12 Canada Geese, three Coot, a Moorhen, two Stock Dove, two Reed Bunting and a Shelduck. The ponds that border the lower path had lots of noisy Marsh Frogs calling from within.

The Stilt Pool held a Mute Swan family with one juvenile, 18 Black-tailed Godwit, a juvenile Mediterranean Gull, a Ringed Plover, 14 Canada Geese, six Tufted Ducks, five Lapwing, three Gadwall, 46 Black-headed Gulls, a Little Egret, eight Herring Gulls, four Cormorants, three Coot and eight Mallard.

Stilt Pool, RSPB Medmerry, West Sussex