2013 - Week 9 - Round Up

This week continued with pretty bleak conditions, with mainly low cloud and dull conditions with a biting north-east wind! This did not help the photography but with some hard work, some good birds were seen this week especially in West Sussex.

As previously reported, 2 Tundra Bean Geese were to be found in the Arun Valley, mainly viewed from the Black Rabbit pub (last seen on Saturday 2nd March) hanging out with Greylag Geese, good numbers of Red Kite seem to be moving around at the moment with 2 different birds seen at Bury Hill on the 27th Feb and a single over Graffham on the 28th

 

Red Kite - Graffham - 28th February

 

A visit to a couple of sites inland produced a Lesser-spotted Woodpecker which was pretty vocal but did not show well for the camera and finally managed to track down a Dartford Warbler and some Sussex Stonechat's this week and was nice to hear the Woodlark's defying the cold conditions and singing well

 

As I said, not a week for photography..hopefully it will brighten up next week!!