Monday 19th April 2021
Old Lodge NR
- Just time for an afternoon jaunt to Old Lodge NR where I finally got to see my first Redstart of the year - a stunning male!
Tuesday 20th April 2021
- Spent the morning, as usual, with the Weir Wood Work Party doing the weekly snake survey. Much the same as last week with just 1 grass snake, lots of voles and toads and a few mice and shrews. On the birding front there were 2 Common Terns flying around at the west end.
- Earlier, at the Old Airstrip in the Ashdown Forest, I attended an in-service training session with James Adler on Dartford Warbler Surveys. He passed on some very useful help and demonstrated his ideas practically with a cracking Dartford Warbler sighting and another one heard calling from the heather. As a bonus I saw my first Whitethroat of 2021.
Wednesday 21st April 2021
- Another late afternoon session, this time on the path south from Uckfield to Isfield where I encountered my first Nightingale of 2021, singing away in the same bushes as last year.
Thursday 22nd April 2021
- Spent a delightful 3 hours on a guided tour of Broadwater Warren with Kevin.
Friday 23rd April 2021
- My afternoon jaunt today saw me in Chichester twitching the Ring-necked Duck at Honer Reservoir.
courtesy of SelseyBirder and Twitter
- I then moved on to the reserve at Pagham to look at the Spotted Redshank that the Selsey Birders Group had been writing about.
- I finally finished up at Church Norton and found just 1 Little Tern resting by the edge of the water with lots of Sandwich Terns
Saturday 24th April
- At Weir Wood Reservoir I finally got to see my first Mandarins of the year with several sightings, mainly males, flying and swimming around.
- Pride of place however went to the single Arctic Tern seen with the Common Terns.
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