| .Jason Crook's Birding Local |
| DIARY ARCHIVES |
| 08.03.2001 Sandy Point, Hayling Island: Red-throated Diver Gannet Shelduck Pintail Common Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Rock Pipit Black Point (high tide roost) Oystercatcher Grey Plover Knot Sanderling Dunlin Bar-tailed Godwit Redshank Turnstone Hayling Bay: Great-crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Mallard Oystercatcher Sanderling Turnstone Mediterranean Gull Langstone Harbour entrance Shag Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools: Little Grebe Mute Swan Gadwall Teal Mallard Shoveler Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Coot North Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Pale-bellied Brent Goose 09.03.2001 Bedhampton Mill Pond: Chiffchaff North Langstone Harbour, off Broadmarsh (high tide): Long-tailed Duck Mediterranean Gull 10.03.2001 Farlington Playing Field: European White-fronted Goose Pale-bellied Brent Goose North Langstone Harbour: Goldeneye Peregrine Golden Plover Mediterranean Gull Bedhampton Creek shore: Chiffchaff Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools: Little Grebe Mute Swan Shelduck Gadwall Wigeon Teal Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Common Sandpiper Water Rail - Mallard + Coot not counted 12.03.2001 SE of Little Leigh Farm, Durrants (near west Leigh): Mediterranean Gull Grey Wagtail Pied Wagtail Chiffchaff Tipner Lake, Portsmouth Harbour: Mediterranean Gull Hilsea Lines: Shoveler Farlington Playing Field: Mediterranean Gull Meadow Pipit 13.03.2001 Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools: Little Grebe Mute Swan Gadwall Teal Mallard Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Common Sandpiper Water Rail Coot North Langstone Harbour (from �Budds mound�): Slavonian Grebe Black-necked Grebe Pale-bellied Brent Goose Long-tailed Duck Goldeneye Red-breasted Merganser Peregrine Mediterranean Gull Little Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Meadow Pipit Pied Wagtail NW Chichester Harbour (from Langstone Bridge): Mediterranean Gull 14.03.2001 NW Chichester Harbour (from The Ship Inn carpark) Red-breasted Merganser Goldeneye Mediterranean Gull Black-headed x Mediterranean Gull hybrid Hayling Bay: Great-crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Sanderling Mediterranean Gull Black Point: Eider Brockhampton Sewage Farm pools: Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup Common Sandpiper - other birds similar to 13.03 North Langstone Harbour (from �Budds mound�): Black-necked Grebe Long-tailed Duck Short-eared Owl |
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Seawatching (a.m.) E (1 E + 3 offshore) E on sea left SW E (8 E + 3 W) NW + + adults first-winter + + male adult female off sewage outfall adults adult 1050-53 and 1440-1545 hrs adult with Dark-bellied Brent + E adult new migrant male adults circling with other gulls singing adults adults (grounded by heavy rain) male + -all but one in summer plumage adults female off sewage outfall -including 2 adult males adult + adults adult off sewage outfall - flew south to roost at dusk NW NW (3 adults and 2 first-winters) (12 adults + 1 2nd-yr + 1 1st-yr) adult summer plumage (the same bird that was at Tipner Lake on 03.03 and 05.03.2001) second-summer female male female (favouring area between Broadmarsh slipway and sewage outfall at high tide) hunting over North Binness Island |
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| 8th - 14th March 2001 |
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| -the gulls were collecting on mudflats during the rising tide (1145-1300 hrs) |