RXwildlife Sightings

Great Crested Grebe 800
Long-tailed Duck 1
Surf Scoter 1 (poor, but distinctive view)

Reported by Pete Brown today

Slavonian grebe - 1 ARC pit, 1 New Excavations
Black-necked grebe - ARC pit
Red-crested pochard - pair at Hooker’s pits
Bittern - 3 sightings (Hooker’s pits, Christmas Dell and Makepeace hide) of at least two different birds.

A bittern was seen this morning at Glyne Gap marsh.

Reported by: Ian Standivan

At Pett Level 0745 this morning: 2 Bitterns circling over and eventually landing at, the weaternmost pool.
616 Great Crested Grebes close in along the tideline.
1 Whitefronted Goose with Greylags.
Cliff dean

The Lesser Scaup was present this morning.

On a calm sea this morning a quick count totalled 370 Great-crested Grebe and 450 Common Scoter. Many of the grebes being close to the shore.

Cliff Dean today reported
Great Crested Grebe - 590 off Pett shore this morning (but gone this afternoon)
White-fronted Geese - 2 behind pools this afternoon.

While I was sat in the hide at Castle Water this evening I could see 200+ Golden Plover and many hundreds of Lapwing to the east of the Rother.

At Castle Water
5 Bittern
9 Smew
16 Scaup
25 Little Egret
491 Wigeon
138 Tufted Duck
70 Gadwall
3 Goldeneye
5 Ruff
4 Golden Plover
1000 Lapwing
1 Barn Owl
50 Stock Dove
also Stonechat, Fieldfare, Cetti’s Warbler
and Kingfisher

At Ternery Pool
194 Shoveler

At Long and Narrow Pits
148 Pochard
1 Cetti’s Warbler
2 Long-eared Owl still at the roost

Slavonian grebe (1) - Burrowes pit
Red-crested pochard (pair) - Hooker’s pits
Smew (5 red-heads)
Marsh harrier
Peregrine (2)
Barn owl
Water pipit - Dengemarsh