Autumn is a favourite time of year of mine and I've been enjoying getting out in the field over the course of the last couple of weeks. Wader movement has started, with Wood, Green and Common Sandpipers, and Common Snipe, among the species showing up on local wetlands. Even a Pectoral Sandpiper dropped in, though that unfortunately wasn't my find. juvenile Common Sandpiper However, it has been passerines that have been most exciting in these early stages of autumn movement so

The Northern Fulmars are back in town! I walked down to Rock-a-Nore to look through the gulls, dreaming of a white-winger. A first-winter Yellow-legged Gull was reward enough. first-winter Yellow-legged Gull (centre) But I was soon distracted by the fulmars, with at least eight nest ledges occupied, and plenty of prospecting flights along the cliff face, and cackling between partners and chancers. Northern Fulmars bickering This long-lived tubenose [unrelated to gulls] often

Our day's birding with Kiran, Merryn, Aria and Kate started at Pett Level, where there was plenty on offer! We were greeted by fields...

2022 got off to a flying start for David with Peregrine Falcon, Purple Sandpiper, Snow Bunting, Yellow-legged Gull and Hooded Crow.

A day looking for migrant birds and butterflies on the South Downs, followed by gulls, warblers and dragonflies in Worthing.