Despite numerous visits in the past 8 days, today was the first day to have a bit of change avian wise. New in on the scrape were a
Black-tailed Godwit and my first sighting of a
Water Rail this autumn, and along the reeds a
Spotted Flycatcher was present. Still, only 7
Dunlin were present (52 present on the 17th). Looping back over through Foxhole Farm produced the same
Whinchat and male
Redstart from yesterday, but then I noticed a Crow chasing the unmistakable shape of a
Hoopoe. I was amazed and quickly ran off a series of photos but thankfully the bird settled down and up until near dusk it showed well feeding in the sheep field above the track leading towards Foxhole Farm. A major find tick after years of hoping to find one on every single spring visit to either here or Seaford Head.
Other visits have found a colony of 30+ Autumns Lady's Tresses, 3
Teal (17th) and five
Sandwich Tern and 2
Little Grebe on the 21st.
Totals for this evening:
Black-tailed Godwit - 1
Water Rail - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Spotted Flycatcher - 1
Hoopoe - 1
Whinchat - 1
Yellow Wagtail - 100+
Wheatear - 15
Spotted Flycatcher by the scrape
