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09.05.2025
Took a walk today along the Medmerry Trail to check for Red-footed Falcon which have been influxing regionally for the last few days. Didn't...
08.05.2025
Decided to stay uber-local today and walked from the Lodge to Ferry this morning for a quick walk HERE before the school run and then spen...
07.05.2025
The colder northeasterlies are back and things have been pretty slow off the Bill. This morning's log HERE . Highlights were a Hobby in-off...
06.05.2025
Had a very pleasant (albiet rather cold) morning in the company of the Nightingale (s) on Chichester Canal. Also Cuckoo and Raven and stacks...
05.05.2025
At the seawatch this morning the only bird really on the move was Whimbrel with 22 moving east HERE and in the evening I did the walk from...
04.05.2025
Proud to be involved in this publication in Nature Journal/Scientific Reports (I did some of the donkey work trapping, ringing and collectin...
The wind changed back round to the northeasterly this morning so expectations were higher than in yesterday's westerly. I missed a Red-necke...
03.05.2025
Today was full of birding headaches. The day started off pretty well with a couple of nice Poms past the Bill. Ebird list HERE . However it...
02.05.2025
The day got off to a good start with a Great Egret on Ferry and within five minutes of arriving at the Bill three gorgeous Poms flew fairly ...
01.05.2025
The wind remained a light north-easterly but today it delivered the goods after the writing was on the wall yesterday evening when Andrew ha...
29.04.2025
Ian, Kojak and myself did a big day on the Peninsula today. Ebird list HERE . Kojak and I were late to start and by the time we met up with ...
28.04.2025
There was just the lightest north east breeze this morning at Selsey Bill which seems to have put the knackers on any visible passage HERE ....
27.04.2025
Another interesting morning at the Bill HERE with highlights for me including 12 Little Gulls, my first Swifts of the year, Barwits on the...
26.04.2025
We finally got in on the easterly action today with a force 3-4 south easterly which immediately resulted in an uptick of easterly passage. ...
25.04.2025
Vincent Legrand and I have recently published two article on our decade long project about Pelagic birding on the Azores . The first arti...
24.04.2025
We got back early Sunday morning (a Cuckoo was calling in the lane along with three singing Whitethroats) and I did the usual birding walk i...
21.04.2025
Saturday was another write-off with a family day at Limmasol marina, delicious grilled fish lunch and then the afternoon at the pool but we ...
19.04.2025
Thursday was a right-off at the Water Park but on the way back we stopped off at Asprokremnos Dam where I managed to get the first target en...
17.04.2025
Yesterday after a late night flight we had a relaxing day around our hotel in Limassol before checking out the Akrotiri area in the evening....
14.04.2025
It was a good day on the Peninsula yesterday (see HERE ) with the first Serin in two years, 110 Little Gulls moving east, 40 Whimbrel east ...
12.04.2025
Another Hoopoe was reported from Church Norton this morning and another dip from me then ensued. Several other Hoopoes were also recorded to...
10.04.2025
I was in London working yesterday when a Hoopoe turned up at Medmerry (exactly where I had been looking for one the evening before). Marc Re...
08.04.2025
The wind died down today and with it came a noticeable uptick in visible migration. I started the day off at the Bill with the gang and high...
06.04.2025
The anticyclonic conditions with a persistent north east to east wind, up to F6 some days, appears to have become a permanent weather fixtur...
05.04.2025
I've been stuck at the Homestead working and on family duty for the last couple of days (which cost me the Alpine Swift over The Bill this m...
03.04.2025
Been on the top of the wish list for a while now so really quite pleased to find this by the trap yesterday morning. A lifer. A bit of a so...
A bit of excitement today. I was doing my paperwork when a message came in regarding a Little Stint on Stilt Pool found by Paul Bowley. As I...
01.04.2025
A period of anticyclonic conditions and north east winds has become established over the last few days and is forecasted to continue for the...
28.03.2025
Simon let me know that there was a Least Sandpiper on private land in Hampshire on the weekend so I thought I would take a long shot and che...
27.03.2025
It was a paperwork and earning brownie points day today but despite technically not actually getting out in the field I managed to bag a cou...
25.03.2025
4 Redwings flew over the garden as I headed out to join the Selsey Seawatch this morning for a couple of hours. It was pretty quiet, the mos...
24.03.2025
Sue visited this weekend and we managed to pop out a couple of times birding. I had a look round Church Norton, the Severals and Pagham Spit...
22.03.2025
Dissapointment was the theme of today. With cloud rolling in over night and a moderate south-easterly wind, it was perfect conditions for dr...
21.03.2025
The birds were still on the move today off Selsey Bill with highlights including over 1000 Brents, 7 Little Gulls, 19 Sandwich Terns, nearly...
20.03.2025
The north-easterly wind finally yeilded and starting swinging towards the southeast which was enough of a release to get the birds moving ag...
18.03.2025
The cold north-easterly wind persists so I decided to postpone birding time rations to later on this week and just did a couple of hours at ...
17.03.2025
Last week's false Spring has seen a return to frosts and northerly winds with the next wave of Spring due this coming Wednesday onwards. A f...
15.03.2025
The Wandle Valley Forum have put Sutton Council on legal notice for the lack of enforcement of planning conditions to deliver the Beddington...
11.03.2025
Finally got a proper summer migrant today, the first Northern Wheatear found by the Vicar this morning at the Windmill Beach. I spent most o...
10.03.2025
It was a family day today so we went to Arundel wetland centre where I was hoping for an early Sand Martin amongst the pond dipping and boat...