lovely spring afternoon at west rise. 2 scand rock pipits still, 3-4 (pink) water pipits, 2 jack snipe, 1 white wag, c.55 shoveler and a fine drake garganey.

some recent bits: ouse valley 10 jack snipe. cuckmere valley great grey shrike, whitefront, 2 ylg, 15+ scand rock pipits, 17 pintail. cuckmere is looking best i've seen it between exceat-litlington, so many ducks. west rise 2 scand rock pipits, 2 water pipits, marsh harrier, 12 pintail. bittern was seen, not by me, but first i've heard of for couple of years. splash point seawatch in one hour trickle of stuff including 8 little gulls and over 300 brent.

the northeast winds have got great black-backs on the go and not surprisingly a few argentatus are associating with 'em, below is a selection of pics taken at west rise. not used to seeing white heads and bright bills. some wing-tips caspo-like save for eg no black on p5. the bird taking off shows the thayeri pattern on p10.

extreme change of course for the river at cuckmere haven

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5 (possibly 6) water pipits at west rise is the most I've had there. the grey goose flock has moved on but been replaced by the ridgways canada goose from the cuckmere. no sign of the barnacle that was here 2 days ago.

little bunting was the first i've seen since 1996 (sussex&scilly). had to work for this bird but sometimes that's a good thing. the whitefront has been at west rise along with 3 water pipits.

one of the male blackcaps has finally found my apples. another first was an audi r8 in morrisons car park

1 of 5 foxes seen in a field on amberley wild brooks. little owl at arundel. the bewicks flock was visible from burpham church but bloody miles away - access from the black rabbit and you'd have been in their field. kumliens views better than last year. this bird should turn into a good adult (mirror on p10 etc) so hope it keeps returning. i remembered the roedean bird looking quite good in photos but looking at it now rubbish by comparison... and it got progressively paler with age until it was basically an adult iceland.