Pevensey Levels - Horse Eye Level

Diary entry by tom forbes

08/05/2004, Pevensey Levels - Horse Eye Level

First time walking across the levels - fairly warm but blustery day...

Highlight was a twisting and turning Hobby (10-20 had been reported the day before hawking insects)

Also Bar Tailed Godwit in flight, many Swifts, Swallow & House Martins, also Yellow Wagtails...

32 Species Spotted:
Barn Swallow
Bar-tailed Godwit
(Common) Blackbird
Carrion Crow
Chiffchaff
(Great) Cormorant
Dunlin
(European) Goldfinch
Great Black-backed Gull
(European) Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Herring Gull
(Eurasian) Hobby
(Common) House Martin
(Northern) Lapwing
(Common) Linnet
Little Egret
Mallard
(Common) Moorhen
Mute Swan
(Common) Redshank
(Common) Reed Bunting
Sedge Warbler
(Common) Shelduck
(Common) Skylark
(Common) Starling
Stock Dove
(Common) Swift
(Common) Wood Pigeon
(Winter) Wren
Yellow Wagtail

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