Monday 25 February 2019

A Buzzard over the A27 wasn't a surprise but a pair of displaying Sparrowhawks was a little more unusual. At PB chatted to Andy and Katherine whilst watching ten Snipe, two Raven and seven Buzzards but little else. By lunchtime many Brimstones were on the wing. At Hanger View a few more Buzzards and four each of Dunlin and Ruff whilst elsewhere a few singing Chiffchaffs; sadly no other insects.

At Arundel forty or more Snipe, 750 mixed gulls included eight Meds. The distant, newly ploughed estate fields were smothered with gulls. Yet more singing Chiffchaffs plus two or three Firecrests including the one below snapped with the slow M43 zoom at 100mm on autofocus. Definitely not @recordshotmyars material.