Saturday 27 August 2016

Titchfield

A nice cool morning with a light breeze was such a relief after the last few scorching days. One elusive Little Stint flew out from South Scrape and returned later with two friends but were always distant as below; sadly none of the bumper crop of east coast Curlew Sandpipers have made it this far. Probably a total of 100+ hirundines equally split between Swallow and House Martin with just a small number of Sand and eight or so Snipe plus usual suspects.
One distant Marsh Harrier, two Buzzard and a juvenile Sprawk zipping across South Scrape so low and fast that nothing flushed!!
The Turnstone flock was over 50 strong with a few smart 'tortoiseshells' amongst them.