I started the morning at Goring Gap where I recorded the following: on the sea was six Wigeon, four Brent Geese, four Teal, four Common Scoter, 10 Great Crested Grebes and two Red-breasted Mergansers. The beach held nine Oystercatcher, four Grey Plover, two Ringed Plover, 20 Turnstone, 20 Sanderling and 53 Dunlin. Noted in the roost field was just a single Skylark.
Next stop was Ferring Rife where the highlight was two Little Grebes, my first here since a single on 10th January 2019. Elsewhere, a Water Rail near the small group of conifers. Other notables included four Stock Doves, 23 Moorhens, a Grey Heron, a Jay, three Song Thrushes, a Stonechat, nine Linnets and a Reed Bunting.
Moving onto Brooklands where I saw the Great Northern Diver offshore and the drake Pochard on the lake and a very showy male Kingfisher on the stream. Afterwards, I moved onto Shoreham Beach which was very productive and produced a Purple Sandpiper on the west arm along with a Rock Pipit. Offshore was a feeding frenzy of c100 Gannets and two Mute Swans were at the harbour mouth. The Black Redstart was still present at Shoreham Sailing Club.
Purple Sandpiper, Shoreham Harbour, West Sussex
I ended the day at Burpham where I had good views of the 10 adult Bewick's Swans and a Barn Owl was seen near the dew pond.
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