Friday 24 March 2017

Southsea Castle

A quick visit in typically cold grey windy Spring conditions, an hour or so after high tide, produced a dozen Purple Sandpipers - six feeding down in the surf and the rest roosting high up the wall in their usual little hollow making them surprisingly difficult to find.

Two of three Rock Pipits in and around the castle and moat and about 10-20 Meadow Pipits in-off; sadly no Wheatears.