Some spring variety on Down and Horseye Levels this morning, with an OSPREY high North at 10.42, a record (for me) 8 WATER PIPITS sitting in hawthorns, the long-staying ringtail Hen Harrier, an adult male Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Shelduck, 3 Sedge Warblers, Swallow, 2 Great White Egrets, 5 each of Gadwall and Shoveler, and a Green Sandpiper. #Sussex #birding #SussexBirding #PevenseyLevels #PatchBirding

#WeBS survey for on Down and Horse-eye Levels this morning: 2 Black-t Godwits, a pair of Shelduck, a few dozen Wigeon and Teal still, Peregrine & Red Kite, Egyptian Goose, Water Pipit (CB), Water Rail and 3 Great White Egrets. Chilly, but spring in the air with display from Lapwings, Meadow Pipits and Skylarks. The first Wheatear or Garganey this week? #Sussex #birding #SussexBirding #PevenseyLevels

A rare find today: A little slice of wet #grassland #refugia that has escaped pump drainage, ploughing, and intensive fertilisers in the #PevenseyLevels

20 Barnacle Geese flew in to Horse-eye - presumably part of the feral band touring Sussex, but it’s nice to wonder.

Also 1 Cattle, 2 Great White and 5 Little Egret, 2 distant Golden Plover and 5 Shelduck on Down scrape.

Chaffinch and many Skylarks in song. A single Fieldfare and 3 Redwings in the hawthorns.

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At least 3, perhaps 5 Great White Egrets, across Horse-eye and Down, 3 Little and a Cattle Egret at White Dyke farm, a Shelduck on Down scrape, and my first Chaffinch song of the year. #imbolc #sussex #sussexbirding #ukspring #PevenseyLevels