A box of year ticks

Sue and I started off at the Bill HERE where the highlights included an adult Little Gull, 3 Great Northern Divers, 20+ Red-throated Divers and 9 Shags. Proceedings were cut short as we had to go and rescue Holly and the boys with a car breakdown and then after I dropped off Jacob I popped into Birdham Pool and had a singing Coal Tit. I then took Sue and Isaac to see the Slav at Platinum Jubilee Park before she had to head home and then I spent the afternoon at Fishbourne Creek first checking from Chichester Marina HERE and then Dell Quay HERE. Highlights in the Creek including a male Goldeneye, 2 Treecreeper and a Nuthatch (Peninsula tick) at Salterns Copse, 4 Greenshank, 15 Red-breasted Mergansers, 6 Rock Pipit and huge numbers (c2000) of Common Gulls in the same field as the Brents.

Little Gull, Shag, Coal Tit, Nuthatch, Treecreeper and Goldeneye were all year ticks so now 118 for the Peninsula year list and 494 for the World year list.  Now on 207 for the Peninsula with Nuthatch HERE. 

Treecreeper

Nuthatch

Slavonian Grebe

Red-breasted Mergansers at Dell Quay 

Great Northern Diver at the Bill

Redshanks and Dunlin at Dell Quay- good numbers of waders at the head of the creek with 200 Redshank, 40 Dunlin, 35 Turnstone, 60 Curlew and 4 Greenshank (below)