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Firle birds
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Winged life on the South Downs
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Marsh Harrier
A good day for raptors. After warming up with Hobby and Peregrine, Paul S had two sightings of (presumably a single) Marsh Harrier, which came in from the North before working its way East along the escarpment and was then seen again over the village.
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Firecrest on the escarpment
Cold and windy up on the escarpment early on Bank Holiday Monday morning, and few birds were showing themselves. But a second go at the scrub west of the Beacon car park revealed an early Firecrest, plus a couple of Wheatears. In the same area, a (presumed) family group of four Buzzards, a few Red-legged [...]
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Yellow Wagtails
There’s been some good migration through Sussex in recent days, including decent numbers of Redstarts, Pied Flycatchers and Yellow Wagtails at Seaford and Beachy (not to mention a couple of Hoopoes in West Sussex – can we have a couple over this side please?) I went up onto the escarpment mid-morning today with an unruly [...]
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Round-headed Rampion etc
After three years or so of exchanging comments on our blogs, it was great to finally meet Steve Kingsdowner (I’m adopting the NME tradition of calling band members by their first name followed by the name of the band they’re in – works for bloggers too). Steve hails from the chalky bit of East Kent, [...]
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Black Redstart
A Black Redstart (amid many commoner birds) feeding on flying ants in the paddocks just south of the village – watched for 20 minutes by Paul S. A fem/imm bird, this is the first record in the period I’ve been keeping track, since 2005. It follows a bird reported at High and Over (Alfriston) a [...]
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