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Probably 6 Bearded Tits along the North Wall RSPB Pagham Harbour this afternoon! A welcome addition to the peninsula year list

Serin… famous for making leaf beds in the v of a branch 😅

4 Miles short of a first for Sussex 😢😢😢

The peninsula delivers again! A mad lunch break saw me connect with the first Least Sandpiper in Sussex for 30 years! Great start to the spring !

The peninsula strikes AGAIN! Amazing to be with the group seawatching when the shout of “SWIFT” went up. 2 BB Rares in 2 days!

The Selsey Peninsula purple patch continues! A nervous day at work wasn’t justified. What’s next!

The Least Sandpiper that overwintered in Somerset appears to have visited Hampshire and Sussex, to the delight of birders in the South-East: bit.ly/43JyP48

I went to Chichester Gravel Pits this afternoon, whilst watching some Swallows I picked up a Harrier streaming towards me very high. Fully expecting a Marsh Harrier you can Imagine my surprise when it turn out to be a MALE HEN! Here's some ropy phonescoped footage

Chuffed to add Serin to my self found list this morning with this vocal Female at Selsey Bill. Second bird here this spring!

In Berlin for the day with work. The office balcony gives a view over a little wood with Nightingale, Redstart and ST Treecreeper. Makes you realise how poor uk biodiversity is! Makes the pain of missing Poms and stints back home slightly less painful

A proper dawn till dusk day for an attempt to beat the Selsey Peninsula day total, set by Ian Pitts 11 days ago. Over 15 miles traveled on foot and bike and it ended just after sunset with this Barn Owl being bird number 113. Serin was the highlight but I’m now broken

A Stonker! One of 5 Poms off Selsey I managed to see today. Slight consultation for the Long-Tailed that went through early afternoon.

An excellent pelagic off Kuwait last week with up to six Short-tailed Shearwaters. More on the blog …teralfreybirdingnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/05/kuwait… BirdGuides

1 year ago today this little bush on Holy Island held a first for the Western Palearctic! Not that I knew that when taking these videos 😂. Still annoyed that It didn’t twig until 8 hours after I saw it, what it actually could be/was . You live and learn..

Is this the closest one’s been? Surely this is the year for it to fall!?

22/5 16:30 : Great Black-headed Gull : Winchester College Water Meadows. Low south.

In 25 years of birding I’ve only seen one Quail, in flight, flying away from me in 2005. That all changed this evening when I managed to pick this male up on the DECK! at Medmerry. Sadly only had bins, so video isn’t great, but mega to SEE one after years of just hearing them.

Awks

Lesser Striped Swallow in Kuwait: a Western Palearctic first Peter Alfrey documents the stunning discovery of a regional first amid a desert sandstorm: bit.ly/4kstp2M

Lesser Yellowlegs today continues the stunning run of American Waders on the Selsey Peninsula in the last 12 months. American Golden Plover, Pec Sand, Semi P sand, Least Sand and Now the Lesser legs! Selsey is the New West coast of Ireland it seems!