Adult xema sabini
Friday, 20 January 2023
Sabine's Gull (mainland Hants twitch)
Day trip off island over to Havant, Hampshire, to see the adult Sabine's Gull xema sabini that has been present near Southmoor Nature Reserve (Budds Farm Sewage Farm) since Jan 8th. This understandably popular and twitch-able bird showed extremely well - (ridiculously) close views. Also: went to Pig Bush/Shatterford (New Forest) to twitch the wintering Great Grey Shrike - but dipped that one. A few phone scoped record shots:
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Sunday, 1 January 2023
2023 - WTE - Ventnor
New Year's day:
Out working today, but came home for lunch, at which point a White-tailed Eagle drifted over as I was walking home (Ventnor). Saw it cause some commotion (local herring gulls, corvids, and a buzzard, mobbing it) before it flew out of sight over the downs and northwards. I haven't seen that many WTEs along the island's south coast since they were released nigh on four years ago; this being probably the fifth or sixth sighting in the Ventnor area (for me anyway)...
First Sea Watch of the year (03/01/23) at St. Catherine's Point:
Mild (11c), breezy [F7-8], light rain, SSW. 08:10 - 10:30am.
Kittiwakes were steadily trickling by...and fulmars into double figures..
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