Category: seabirds
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September 2024
September is when visible migration really steps up a gear and my birding time over the month was largely spent soaking it up. It was a wet and unsettled month weather wise and this may have contributed to those those days of finer weather being particularly lively. Movement seems to occur on a broad front…
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Sabine’s Gull and Grey Phalarope, Norman’s Bay, 11 November 2023
On the 11th I made the short trip west to Norman’s Bay to catch up with the 1CY Sabine’s Gull which had been hanging around there since the 5th Nov. In the end this came with the very nice bonus of a Grey Phalarope and at least 7 Little Gull. These storm blown birds have…
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Storm-Petrels from West Hill, Hastings, 2 November 2023
With Storm Ciarán still making its way east across the south of England, Hastings was pretty wet and windy on the 2nd and by midday I hadn’t yet dared to venture outside. That was until I got a call from David Campbell to say he had just had 3 Leach’s Storm-Petrel past West Hill. Fortunately…