| .Jason Crook's Birding Local |
| DIARY ARCHIVES |
| 01.03.2001 Horsea Island foreshore, Portsmouth Harbour: Mediterranean Gull Farlington Playing Field: Mediterranean Gull 02.03.2001 Wade Court, Havant: Redwing Chichester Harbour (low tide): Golden Plover Knot Bar-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Godwit Mediterranean Gull North Hayling Oysterbeds: Little Egret Pale-bellied Brent Goose Pintail Ringed Plover Black-tailed Godwit Spotted Redshank Redshank Greenshank Mediterranean Gull Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Mediterranean Gull Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools: Ferruginous Duck hybrid Little Grebe Mute Swan Wigeon Gadwall Teal Mallard Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Coot Common Sandpiper 03.03.2001 Tipner Lake, Portsmouth Harbour: Mediterranean Gull RING-BILLED GULL Black-tailed Godwit Black-headed x Mediter- .............-ranean Gull hybrid Grey Wagtail Hilsea Lines: Shoveler Brockhampton SF pools: Ferruginous Duck hybrid Wigeon Gadwall Shoveler Pochard Tufted Duck Scaup North Langstone Harbour (from Brockhampton shore): Goldeneye Long-tailed Duck 04.03.2001 Brockhampton shore: Dark-bellied Brent Goose Wigeon Pintail Goldeneye Long-tailed Duck Ringed Plover Knot Black-tailed Godwit Mediterranean Gull Brockhampton SF pools: Ferruginous Duck hybrid Wigeon Gadwall Shoveler Scaup Common Sandpiper Grey Wagtail (other wildfowl as 02.03) North Hayling Oysterbeds: Pale-bellied Brent Goose Shelduck Pintail Spotted Redshank Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Mediterranean Gull Hayling Halt (spit): Mediterranean Gull Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Red-breasted Merganser 05.03.2001 SE of Little Leigh Farm, Durrants � near West Leigh: Peregrine Tipner Lake, Portsmouth Harbour: Mediterranean Gull RING-BILLED GULL Black-headed x Mediter- ..............ranean Gull hybrid White/albinistic Larus sp. Black Redstart Hilsea Lines: Shoveler 06.03.2001 Sandy Point, Hayling Island: Pintail Eider Red-breasted Merganser Sanderling Mediterranean Gull Little Gull Black Point: Sanderling Meadow Pipit Goldeneye Red-breasted Merganser Hayling Bay: Great-crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Red-breasted Merganser Sanderling Meadow Pipit Black Redstart Langstone Harbour entrance Shag Bedhampton Creek (off Broadmarsh slipway): RING-BILLED GULL 07.03.2001 Port Solent area, Portsmouth Harbour: Mediterranean Gull Broadmarsh: Linnet Meadow Pipit Bedhampton Creek (off Broadmarsh slipway): Peregrine Black-tailed Godwit Mediterranean Gull RING-BILLED GULL North Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Goldeneye Oystercatcher Brockhampton Shore: Pheasant Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools (briefly at dusk): Pochard Tufted Duck |
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(5 adults + 1 second-summer + .......1 first-winter) adult at 1600 hrs off Langstone Mill Pond " " " " " " " " " " " " adults adult male - unusual here + roostng with Redshank second-winter adults in Langstone Channel male + male (6 adults + 3 first-winters) first-winter 1200-1230 hrs adult in summer plumage male male female commuting to Broadmarsh + female + adults (also on Sewage Farm) male male adults with Dark-bellied Brent (unusual here) roosting with Redshank second-winter adults in Langstone Channel � � � first-winter (5 adults + 1 first-winter) first-winters adult in summer plumage adult - structually most like Lesser Black-backed Gull, but possibly a small Herring Gull. female along south side of new housing estate Seawatching 0715-0915 hrs E at 0805 hrs E at 0725 hrs (3 m + 2 f) E E (local movement) adult E adult E at 0859 hrs E N in seafront gardens just west of Eastoke �corner� (briefly singing) first-winter adult 1545-1730 hrs adults in pre-roost gathering first-winter male adults adult at 1615 hrs + including 2 adult males left high E at 1750 hrs; several other groups were heard leaving E/N after dark male (unusual here) |
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| 1st - 7th March 2001 |
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| - large wader roost mostly Dunlin (approx. 10000), also small numbers of Oystercatcher (including a partial albino), Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, Redshank, Curlew and Turnstone. Wildfowl including a few Wigeon and Teal. |
| - other species here included Dark-bellied Brent, Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, and Redshank, as well as several thousand gulls. |
| - One from 1145-1615 hrs (with marked scapulars and one central tail feather replaced) and another (with unmarked scapulars and noticeably dark tail) from 1440-1540 hrs and again around 1630 hrs when it flew south to roost in Portsmouth Harbour |