The high pressure conditions with clear blue skies continues so I spent today trying to catch up with a few local ticks. I started off joining the dialy seawatch at Selsey with Andrew, Ian and Sarah, highlights included a Slavonian Grebe, 3 Great Northern Diver, 4 Red-throated Diver, 8 Shag and 6 Sandwich Tern. 12 Oystercatchers and 5 vocal Med Gulls may have been migrants. Full log and all lcoal news HERE. I had a few Meds over the garden on the weekend so looks like their Spring migration is just starting up. Presumably the frosty nights are using up the energy of the local waterbirds as there has not been much moving off the Bill since about 10 days ago during a short period of southerlies. It's set to get milder later on in the week so will keep an eye on that.
Next stop was Wilson's Farm at Medmerry looking for Corn Bunting where I managed to glimpse one amongst the 60-70 Yellowhammers. There was still a flock of about 350 Golden Plover on the reserve but I didn't see a single Lapwing today so presumably they moved out of the area now. A Marsh Harrier was displaying high over the reserve.
The final stop of the day was Itchenor where I got Coal Tit for the year and the main target was Treecreeper in the Oak Wood where I managed to track down a couple of them. Treecreeper was a Peninsula tick and Coal Tit and Corn Bunting were year ticks (now on 120 for the year). So a nice little day making the most of the sun and the quiet time catching up with a few of the locals.
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