Simon let me know that there was a Least Sandpiper on private land in Hampshire on the weekend so I thought I would take a long shot and check out a few wader spots. First plan was to check out Snowshill Marsh but when I arrived there was thick fog so I turned round rather than pay the parking charges there. Instead I checked out Ferry and soon after the fog cleared so I had a walk round the Long Pool and visitors centre to Mill lane and back. 61 species HERE including the first Sedge Warbler and two Willow Warblers for the Peninsula for the year and there was also a Blackcap singing and about 10 Chiffchaffs. Furthermore small flocks of Mips were going over- had about 35 in a couple of hours,. Additionally a second-calender year Red Kite was flying around which basically followed me home as was circling over our lane, a quick message to Andrew and he picked it up over his garden too. A garden tick for me.
No Least Sand on Ferry, just one LRP, a Spotted Redshank, 6 Avocet, 57 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe and 78 Shoveler. Seems like most of the Wigeon have gone now.
Elsewhere on the Peninsula today a Little Gull was on Chichester Gravel Pits and a Red-crested Pochard was found there too- so all in all a little bit of an arrival of new birds today.
The wind was a light north-westerly so clearly birds are still moving into the light head wind.
A few butterflies were on the wing including the first Small Whites and also Speckled Wood, Brimstone, Peacocks, Comma and Red Admiral. A Large Tortoiseshell was in Church Norton car park yesterday.
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