the red backed shrike still present this morning.

a nice find this evening was a juv red backed shrike showing well along bazehill road, rottingdean. the bird was by the 2 hay troughs half a mile or so beyond the private road sign. also a cool looking juv cuckoo. absolutely no cars beyond the sign. park and walk.

2 honey buzzards flew over west rise late morning.

osprey east over brighton this afternoon.

taken on sunday morning.

no surprise to find a wryneck at sheepcote today. it was on the east side of the 2nd level down from the top.

late news: a male long tailed blue was in a private garden around queens park, brighton on fri 23rd and a juv caspian gull was at the marina on 13th.

yday: honey buzzard over brighton.

another quiet weekend. a dead porpoise was on the beach at ovingdean on friday evening (9th). the first returning purple sand was at the marina today. long gone are the days when they returned in the first week of july.  i also collected the set of sussex bird reports from 1972 onwards.

couple of old pics from the spring.

yday: 2nd summer caspian gull at the marina.

goldeneye at the res this morning.

yday: a black kite over lewes brooks then loafing over the southern slopes of mount caburn from 7:40-7:55pm when it flew strongly north.

wood warbler is from today, other pics and grebe video are old.

few old pics from last week.

a short eared owl at southease and a drake garganey in the cuckmere on the meanders this evening.

still 5 jack snipes lingering on. its a sad thing at the beginning of may to still be reporting winter species. 

yday: 10 purple sands at the marina roosting with 38 turnstones. all in somekind of sum plum, a couple looking very nice.