Friday 24 October 2014

Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtails and Stonechats

Littlehampton sunrise
During the past week I visited several local sites. Highlights were Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtails and Stonechats, all  at Climping Gap. The Pied Wagtails repeatedly  flew up a metre then landed.
note: ids of Meadow Pipit and Grey Partridge have been revised from the original labels on advice from wise ones...thanks!
Climping Gap:
Carrion Crow with lunch, Corvus corone
Grey Partridges, Perdix perdix
covey of Grey Partridges, Perdix perdix
Reed Bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus
World Aero acrobatic plane

Hailsham Bonfire parade last Saturday where I joined Sussex Search & Rescue members who assisted with marshalling the event:





Cissbury Ring: 
Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus
Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria
Climping Gap:
Black Bryony berries, Dioscorea communis
Brent Geese, Branta bernicla


rusty relic of unknown origin

Comma, Polygonia c-album
male Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum 
Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea


Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba
Pied Wagtail, Motacilla alba
Red Admiral, Vanessa atalanta
Stonechat, Saxicola torquata
female Stonechat, Saxicola torquata
male Stonechat, Saxicola torquata



Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis
Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula
Arundel WWT:
Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Gadwall, Anas strepera
Grey Wagtail, Motacilla cinerea
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta
Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula
Shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus


Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo
Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo
female Mandarin Ducks, Aix galericulata
Moorhen, Gallinula chloropus
Mute Swan, Cygnus olor
Widewater Lagoon:
Cormorants, Phalacrocorax carbo
Cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo

Cormorants and Little Egrets
Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta
Little Egret, Egretta garzetta
Magpie, Pica pica

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