Unlike my trip to Langstone Harbour on Monday, see: Birds in Langstone Harbour: the old Oyster Beds & Kench Reserves. 17.01.22 when is was cold but sunny all day, on Saturday Langstone Harbour was cold and very overcast. I had planned to meet two birding friends at Farlington Marshes. Because the trains are unreliable at present, due to shortage of drivers as a result of covid self-isolation, I got to Brighton station two hours earlier than the train I intended to catch, in case of cancellations. In fact there were no cancellations in the morning, so I got to Havant with two hours spare; so I took the bus to the top of Hayling Island and spent 90 minutes there before getting the bus back to Havant to meet my friends at Farlington.
Birds seen:
Langstone Bridge/Oyster Beds: Brent Geese, a Greenshank, Redshanks, Curlew, Oystercatchers, Black-Tailed Godwits, Little Grebes, Red-Breasted Mergansers; Mallards, Shovelers, Little Egrets, Black-Headed Gulls, Starlings, a Robin, Magpies, Carrion Crows, Dunlin, a Wren, and a Rock Pipit
Farlington Marshes: Brent Geese, Canada Geese, Redshanks, a Greenshank, Oystercatchers, Black-Tailed Godwits. Lapwing, Shelducks, Teal, Pintails, Wigeon, Mallards, Red-Breasted Mergansers, Coots, Moorhens, Little Grebes, Little Egrets, a Grey Heron, Black-Headed Gulls; Herring Gulls, Carrion Crows, a Kingfisher, Magpies, Carrion Crows, Stonechats and a Marsh Harrier
Langstone Bridge/The Oyster Beds (West Hayling) Nature Reserve
Red-Breasted Mergansers, in the channel that joins Langstone Harbour to Chichester Harbour
Mergansers flying off
Pintails
Shelducks
Black-Tailed Godwits on the shore at the top of Hayling Island, just south of the Mergansers.
Shelducks and Black-Tailed Godwits
Curlew and Dunlin
Dunlin
Greenshank surrounded by Redshanks in flight
Black-Tailed Godwits and Shovelers
Little Egrets flying over the Langstone Bridge
Brent Geese flying down to the shore at the top of Hayling Island
The road bridge (The Langstone Bridge) joining Hayling Island to the mainland at the of Langstone Harbour
The remains of the old rail bridge (Hayling Billy line)
Redshanks and Shovelers
enlarged and lightened:
Black-Tailed Godwits on shore of Hayling Island with Portsea Island in the background
Oystercatcher hiding in the seaweed
Redshank in flight
Robin
Curlew
Curlew and Little Egret
Redshank
Rock Pipit
Little Grebe
Oyster Statue
The Oyster Beds
Shelducks
Little Grebe
Back at the Langstone Bridge, waiting for the bus: Shelducks, Brent Geese and Shovelers
Red-Breasted Mergansers.
Brent Geese landing by the old railway bridge
Red-Breasted Mergansers
Farlington Marshes
Avocets, Brent Geese and a Herring Gull on The Lake
Female Stonechat
Brent Geese on the Lake
Male Stinechat
Brent Geese
Lapwings, Pintails, Teal and Shelducks on the Lake
Black-Tailed Godwit taking off from the Lake; Shovelers, Pintails, Teal and Lapwings behind.
Brent Geese and Avocets (ca. 40 in all, not all in view)
Little Egret
Brent Goose
Pintails on the Deeps
Brent Geese on the Deeps - Portsea in the background
Male Shoveler in the Deeps
Coot and Wigeon
Brent Geese flying over the Marshes
Black-Tailed Godwits off next to the path going to the reed beds (through the marshes)
Lots of Coots on the Stream
Mute Swans
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