More Garganey?

A pair of Garganey today, this time 1K North of Southease Bridge, on the West side of the river. The same as the two seen south of the bridge last week? Also three Chiffchaffs there, and one at Arlington Reservoir, while 9 Purple Sandpipers remain at Newhaven Harbour, and a Black Redstart was seen at [...]

Garganey arrive

A day of Garganey action – an impressive three pairs reported with Teal on a farm pond near Arlington (Andrew Johnston, via SOS) but an extraordinary 26 reported flying past Seaford, amongst lots of other good stuff (Dick Gilmore, via SOS). In the past few days, there have been significant first arrivals of summer migrants [...]

White-winged Gulls, Seaford and Newhaven

On Birdguides today, an Iceland Gull reported at Splash Point Seaford, and a Glaucous Gull reported from Newhaven. Does anyone have any further details on these sightings? ***UPDATE*** Matt Eade posts on SOS: A seawatch at Splash Point, Seaford this morning from 07.35 – 09.05 produced a Red-necked Grebe flying east at 07.39, then Steve [...]

Round-up

A few long-staying birds: Four Bearded Tits remain on show at the Ouse Estuary Project. The Great Northern Diver was reported again on Friday, on the scrape at Cuckmere Haven. The Firecrest was seen again at Rodmell. Also some good seabirds seen from Seaford on Friday by Bob Self: “After a few utterly futile attempts [...]

Shearwaters at Seaford 07.10.08

More good seawatching at Splash Point this morning: highlights being a Balearic Shearwater, a Sooty Shearwater and 4 Manx Shearwaters, plus more skuas. (see SOS sightings for Matt Eade’s full report).

Thousands of Swallows at Seaford

Dick Jackson, per SOS sightings: The birds were coming in off Seaford Bay and feeding on the hatch of flies along the cliff top. The bay was a mass of Swallows moving east. I could not accurately estimate a true number but it must have been thousands. Above Spash Point we were engulfed in the [...]