| .Jason Crook's Birding Local |
| DIARY ARCHIVES |
| 15.03.2001 Barton�s Road Playing Field, West Leigh: Mediterranean Gull Blackcap Tipner Lake, Portsmouth Harbour: Little Egret Mediterranean Gull Kingfisher Black Redstart Hilsea Lines: Blackcap North Langstone Harbour: Long-tailed Duck Brockhampton SF Pools: Greater Scaup 16.03.2001 Sandy Point, Hayling Island: Red-throated Diver Grey Heron Brent Goose Shelduck Teal Pintail Common Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Peregrine Sandwich Tern Meadow Pipit Pied Wagtail Sandy Point Reserve: Wheatear Stonechat Firecrest Hayling Bay: Great-crested Grebe Slavonian Grebe Shoveler Teal Marsh Harrier Mediterranean Gull Wheatear Sinah Common: Wheatear Langstone Harbour entrance Brent Goose The Kench: Mediterranean Gull 17.03.2001 South Hayling Island: Wheatear Sandy Point, Hayling Island: Stonechat Gannet Hayling Bay: Red-throated Diver Common Scoter Slavonian Grebe Langstone Harbour entrance Shag West Lane �corner�: Mediterranean Gull 18.03.2001 Brockhampton / South Moor shore, Langstone Hbr: Little Egret Long-tailed Duck Goldeneye Mediterranean Gull Little Gull RING-BILLED GULL Wheatear North Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Pale-bellied Brent Brockhampton SF pools: Mute Swan Shelduck Wigeon Gadwall Teal Pochard Tufted Duck Greater Scaup + Little Grebe, Mallard, Coot Broadmarsh: Meadow Pipit Wheatear Linnet North Binness Island: Marsh Harrier 19.03.2001 SE of Little Leigh Farm, near West Leigh: Mediterranean Gull Brockhampton SF pools: Greater Scaup Grey Wagtail Brockhampton / South Moor shore, Langstone Hbr: Wigeon Long-tailed Duck Goldeneye Mediterranean Gull RING-BILLED GULL Black-tailed Godwit Wheatear North Langstone Harbour: Black-necked Grebe Pale-bellied Brent Lesser Black-backed Gull NW Chichester Harbour: Mediterranean Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Warblington: Little Egret Emsworth: Wheatear 20.03.2001 Hayling Bay: Slavonian Grebe Gannet Fulmar Common Scoter Red-breasted Merganser Mediterranean Gull Sandwich Tern 21.03.2001 Brockhampton Shore, Langstone Harbour: Long-tailed Duck Goldeneye RING-BILLED GULL Little Gull North Langstone Harbour: Little Grebe Great Crested Grebe Black-necked Grebe Pale-bellied Brent Goose Dark-bellied Brent Goose Red-breasted Merganser Mediterranean Gull Short-eared Owl Langbrook Stream (near A27/Havant junction): Grey Wagtail NW Chichester Harbour (off The Ship Inn pub carpark): Mediterranean Gull |
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+ adults overhead male adults on rooftops of new housing estate male singing female off sewage outfall male Seawatching 0630-1200 hrs E (singles at 0700 and 1127 hrs) E E (1 E + 7 NW) E E at 1040 hrs E at 0657 hrs (2 E + 1 W) E E N/E N (from perimeter fence) along north side with Goldcrests + in-off-sea 1430-1445 hrs: it headed off high north over Langstone Harbour entrance (adult and second-year) near Beachlands carpark at Gunner Point N into harbour adults flew north + E at 1150 hrs E at 1400 hrs E first-years sat on buoys adults with 600 Black-headed Gulls feeding in field female off sewage outfall including 2 adult males adults adult feeding off sewage outfall adult along Brockhampton shore 1500-1415 hrs at least ; now in summer plumage + adults feeding along NW side of Hayling Oysterbeds male second-year male 1515 hrs (5 adults + 1 first-winter) male female off sewage outfall including 2 adult males adults adult along Brockhampton shore 1130-1200 hrs at least adults feeding along NW side of Hayling Oysterbeds adults to roost (11 adults + 1 2nd-summer + 1 1st-winter off The Ship Inn, and 3 adults in Ensworth Harbour) in fields just east of Conigar Point W W E (5 E + 2 W + 2 on sea) (6 adults + 1 second-summer) female adult 1215-1300 / 1730 hrs adult - low numbers recently adults (over 2000 still in harbour) adults at Langbrook Stream mouth, South Moor shore male singing (11 adults + 1 first-winter) |
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| 15th - 21st March 2001 |
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| (Tim Lawman counted 200 mid-morning). A major fall of this species was seen at all sites along the south coast today, with a massive 1000 at Portland in Dorset) |
| - also good numbers of commoner waders, including Grey Plover (120), Knot (73), Black-tailed Godwit (17), Bar-tailed Godwit (10) and Turnstone (136) |
| - flew to Farlington Marshes where it was easily viewed from the north-east entrance hunting over the reedbed until 1800 hrs |