2013 - Week 8 - Round Up

I last saw the Durrington Waxwings on the evening of the 17th February with all 26 feeding nicely and sitting up on the telegraph just across the road from where we originally found them 2 weeks before. A lunch time visit to Burpham the same day had produced excellent views of 3 Red Kites in the winter sunshine whilst the Skylarks have started to sing! We visited some West Sussex heathland but this proved to be very quiet although Robyn enjoyed getting stuck in the mud along the water-logged paths. Covered the Shoreham area on the 18th which was very quiet, a summer plumaged adult Mediterranean Gull on Widewater was a nice find, roosting with 30+Black-headed Gulls. A quick sea-watch here, there was just 3 Common Scoter, 2 Great-crested Grebes and a Razorbill.