Its bloody freezing (a strong notherly with sleet today) and probably feels more so considering a few days ago we were being blasted by Saharan winds. I decided to check out the high tide roost at Snowhill Marsh this morning. Highlight was a Pale-bellied Brent in with about 2500 Dark-bellieds on the approach road to West Wittering Car Park. There's been a large influx in Brent numbers since I was last here a week or so ago. Otherwise everything else was standard fare, in fact there seems to be less waterfowl on the Snowhill then in the late autumn. Ebird list
HERE.
Pale-bellied Brent
Great to see huge flocks of Brents again locally (above and below). Also seems like a lot of juveniles this year.
Also about 350 Lapwing and 250 Golden Plover in the same field as the Brents
Winter waders at Snowhill Marsh (above and below). There were immense flocks of Dunlins spiralling around the Bosham side of Chichester harbour
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