Black-necked grebe (4) - Burrowes pit
Slavonian grebe (2)
Peregrine
Merlin
Mediterranean gull (2), Sandwich tern (2), golden plover, dunlin, little ringed plover, snipe, water pipit - all on Denge Marsh
Swallow - 1 over Burrowes pit late morning
Black redstart - in car park area
Sedge warbler
Chiffchaff
The new Denge Marsh hide is now open.
Highlights were 24 Scaup and our first Yellow Wagtail.
A handful of migrants in the area included the first, very early, Swallow of the year along with four Black Redstarts, 12 Wheatears, five Chiffchaffs and four Firecrests. A handful of Linnnets and Greenfinches passed overhead as did a Merlin and a Grey Wagtail.
Fairly quiet at sea with just three Eider, 246 Common and three Velvet Scoters, a second-summer Mediterranean Gull, 17 Sandwich Terns and a Common Tern of note.
David Walker
There is a bush between the 2 hides at Ternery Pool that is a regular perch for a Merlin - best seen from Crittall Hide. Photo taken today.
2 house martins were over warren glen this morning, also present were 7 chichaffs (2 ringed) and a continental song thrush.
2 pintail flew down the glen and landed on the sea and a curlew flew E.
Also in the glen there was a lovely male adder and a slow worm was at warren cottage.
Philip Newton reports 5 Buzzards over Doleham on Saturday
At Morlais Ridge at Winchelsea Beach a strange call attracted my attention to what from a distance I thought was a flock of starlings at the top of a large poplar tree. They turned out to be 13 Waxwings. Disappointingly they flew off almost immediately, but most obligingly they flew over to the Harbour Farm estate and I got excellent views of them gorging on the crab apples on a small tree.
Ian Turner
A black redstart was present on the edge of Pebsham Tip as well as a flock of 15 reed bunting and five yellowhammer. Two kingfishers and three stonechats were present within Combe Haven Valley.
Black Redstart on edge of Pebsham Tip.
Report & photo: Joe Dickens
Three grass snakes were found by Richard Price and Joe Dickens at Glyne Gap marsh. Also around were two cetti’s warblers.
Photo: Joe Dickens
An hours seawatch early morning from West St Leonards produced an eastward movement of 289 brent geese, 12 common scoter, 8 wigeon, 5 oystercatcher, 5 fulmar, 4 shoveler, 2 red-breasted merganser and a mediterranean gull. Ten red-throated divers were present on the sea inshore.