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Cygnets on the Reach

Posted in Local sightings on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Spot Fly + Sedge Warbler

Posted in Local sightings on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Spotted Flyctahcer still singing this morning around Firle churchyard.
In the village over the past few days, young Nuthatches have made their usual mid-summer appearance, and the number of hirundines appears to be building around Place Farm already.
And yesterday, a local scarcity: a Sedge Warbler singing near the A27, heard from Mill [...]

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Honey Buzzard

Posted in Local sightings on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Belated report – an adult Honey Buzzard over the allotments on Sunday 14 June, seen by Paul S. It circled for a while before heading SE.
Great record. We should get more ‘Honeys’ as the summering population continues to establish itself in well-forested parts in Sussex.

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Firle Bird Walk, 13 June

Posted in Local sightings, photo, tagged , , , , on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Five of us met at Place Farm on a lovely midsummer Saturday morning, for a walk up to Firle Plantation and back. Often on these occasions the really special birds decline to appear on cue – but this time we were in luck.

As we gathered, a subtle but distinctive squeaking song drifted over from the [...]

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Bugs

Posted in Local sightings, photo on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A weekend of bug life. The number of these, which is (I think) the Early Bumblebee (Bombus pratorum), was impressive. They particularly like this purple geranium, of which there are three largish clumps around the garden suddenly in flower.
This moth, unfortunately, was freshly dead when I found it on the kitchen floor. Looking through Waring, [...]

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Teal on the Reach

Posted in Local sightings, tagged , on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What was almost certainly a single male Teal on Glynde Reach, seen this evening for a split second from the train between the A27 and Glynde village, where the train track crosses the water.
Though fairly common in the winter across the Ouse and Glynde Levels, summering Teal are a local rarity. But in recent years, [...]

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Lesser Whitethroat

Posted in Local sightings on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

They’re not rare, but they are rather local – so a Lesser Whitethroat heard briefly near the school on Friday night was a welcome sound, and the closest one to the middle of the village I’d yet recorded.
That was, until Saturday morning, when one sang from trees adjacent to the cricket pitch – a garden [...]

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