A pretty fallow period for some weeks with just a Black-throated Diver off Hill Head, one of the adult eagles in its usual tree at Pulborough and numbers of audible but mostly unseen Siskins and Redpolls, with a dozen or so of the latter feeding in trees along the zig-zag at Pulborough. Also three different Marsh Harriers (male, female and juvenile) at PB but no winter thrushes yet.
An audible only Crossbill was at Stansted as I was exiting the car.
Yesterday was a brief non-birding visit to the sea front with the above views. Massive numbers of walkers on the prom, mostly with pooches in tow - all the same breed and part of Schnauzerfest as above - that one was definitely new for me!!
Today, after Chichester, a few minutes at Warblington produced six Cattle and one Little Egret, a hovering Kestrel and two westbound Crossbills. A few minutes later at the Farlington carpark a Marsh Harrier was quartering over the marsh but high tide precluded anything else.
