Pleasant birding with Dartford Warbler & Tree Pipits at Browndown, 5 raptor sp at Titchfield Haven (& missed 3 others!) + 7+ Sandwich Terns, lots of Chiffs, good movement of pipits etc #HantsBirds#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
...also has sea views and is higher than most of local patch. May have twitched a Bonxie from here when there wasn't time to get to seafront 😂 Could be handy for vis-mig and strangest sighting probs Spotted Redshank (2021)! Not so exciting this week with 1 Wheatear & 10+ Chiffs #HantsBirds 🪶
On 24/9 I was pleased to see Great Posbrook Farm reopened after months of Southern Water work. 1st visited for Solent Wader & Brent Goose check (Golden Plover), then saw that patch of scrub! 😍 Wryneck (2021) best + most Wheatear & spring Whinchats I've had locally #HantsBirds
Good afternoon at Titchfield Haven with 2 Great White Egret, Spoonbill and 2 Knot that dropped in just before closing time! Also lots of Chiffs and 1st Shelduck in ages #HantsBirds#LowCarbonBirding#PWC2024
Good patch birding first thing at Titchfield Haven with an Osprey fishing on the river, 12+ Greylag (most I've seen here), 3 Glossy Ibis, Water Rail, 3 Common Sandpipers, Dunlin etc! Nice to have scrapes reopen though wish there was more wader variety. #HantsBirds#LowCarbonBirding
Another highlight was a Whinchat at IMB Lake, Cosham, and some really scenic parts of the English Coast Path... 😂 #HantsBirds
Well the tit flock is increasing in size, now about 30 birds and has added Goldcrest and nuthatch to the species list. Again most dropping in for a bath/drink in the pond. Watching a Chiffchaff bathe and fight with a willow warbler was a welcome distraction from jet washing the patio #hantsbirds
Also in the surrounding area to the garden, Bullfinch! Proper patch and garden gold, sounded like a family group which hopefully means they’re still breeding in the area and not just winter visitors #hantsbirds
Yay! If you add #HantsBirds#ukbirding, it'll appear in the UK birding feed so more birders will see it 🙂