RXwildlife Sightings

Records reported for Thursday include an arrival of 7 song thrush and 6 redwing in the North’s Seat/Picnic Site area. Also 12 chiffchaff there and a passage of 54 meadow pipit, and single tree pipit, grey wagtail and pied wagtail overhead. Also overhead migration of skylark and chaffinch noted in small numbers over coastguard fields area of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve.

Also redstart seen near Warren Cottage on Wednesday.

Reported by Andrew Grace on wildhastings.

During the last few days, a variety of raptors have been hunting over Pett Level, including a young Hobby which has given fantastic close-up views as it catches dragonflies low over the roadside pool. As I passed today at about 2pm, I was alerted by a cloud of nervous Lapwings to the presence of a Peregrine overhead and then even as I stopped I could see a Hobby gliding across behind the pool. At once, I noticed an odd bird sitting on the far bank, which turned out to be a big f Sparrowhawk, and as I watched it flying off, it passed 2 Kestrels.
(And this evening John Trowell reported 2 Little Stint, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 20 Dunlin and 1 Avocet)