Teal on the Reach

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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24 April 2009

A beautiful evening, although the wind was starting to get up ahead of the showers that arrived overnight.
A bike-ride around Firle just before dusk failed to glean any Nightingales or Turtle Doves, but there was a group of around 20 Swallows down by the decoy pond (along with a large heron chick, on the [...]

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Pictures of the Glynde Reach Shrike

Two shots of the Great Grey Shrike, which was seen at Glynde Reach between 27 Dec and 2 Jan.

Thanks to Les Bird for allowing them to be reproduced here – for more images, see Les’ post on the Cuckmere-Ouse Bird Blog.

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Glynde Reach

In an entirely predictable but still very annoying turn of events, the appearance of the shrike at Glynde appears to have coincided neatly with the only week in the last year that I’ve spent out of Sussex.
But a walk along the Reach today was worth it anyway. The water was frozen, and the landscape surrounding [...]

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Great Grey Shrike and geese

A Great Grey Shrike at Glynde, seen first yesterday and again today, around 400m east of Glynde Bridge, in hawthorns next to the Reach. The first local record for – how long? Many years, perhaps?
Also, nearby on Glynde Levels, five White-fronted Geese and 30 Golden Plover seen today, by Alan Kitson and Miou Helps (via [...]

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Glynde Reach, 8 November

A walk with Paul up Glynde Reach, in the gloom of Saturday afternoon.
Apart from the clouds and the wind, the afternoon belonged to thrushes: at least ten Blackbirds in hawthorns by Glynde Station, and party after party of Redwings in the scrub along the Reach, vastly outnumbering the seven Fieldfares.
Apart from thrushes, passerines were fairly [...]

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Hen Harrier, Glynde Reach

The first Hen Harrier of the winter reported at Glynde today – a ringtail quartering drainage ditches near the Reach, just north of village, reported by James Grover (via SOS site).

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Glynde again

More good stuff at Glynde of late.
On Sunday, a Red Kite reported at Mount Caburn (Peter Coward, per SOS sightings). There have been been quite a few around in the last few days, including a remarkable flock of nine together over Northiam in the East of the county. Is the Caburn bird just [...]

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Early Swifts

A couple of Swifts at Glynde Reach today (seen by Matt Eade, per SOS website).
Are these the first seen in Sussex this year? Whatever, they’re at least a week earlier than expected in our local area.

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Training Harriers

Not a post on falconry, but about a ringtail Hen Harrier at Glynde Reach earlier this week.
The sighting by Robert Slater was made from the train as it passes through Beddingham – presumably over the wet, tussocky area adjacent to the Reach. I’ve seen one fly over the road a couple of years ago [...]

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