Sunday 30 June. Megan and I took Cookie to Lancing Ring and walked around Steepdown. Great views as usual, a welcome breeze and the usual Sky Larks, Whitethroats (9) and Corn Buntings (14). Back home one or other or both Great Black-backed Gulls were with their chick on the roof behind and a Swift flew over.
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| Great Black-backed Gull chick wanting breakfast |
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| Ringlet at Lancing Ring |
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| Cissbury Ring |
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| Steepdown |
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| Corn Bunting in poppies |
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| Corn Bunting in Linseed |
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| looking back to Lancing Ring |
Saturday 29 June. Megan and I took Cookie up to Mill Hill. The hottest day of the year so far with just 3 Whitethroats seen. Back home the Great Black-backed Gulls were on the roof with their chick and 5 Swifts overhead.
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| Bird's-foot Trefoil on our front lawn (my excuse for not cutting it this week) |
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| Cookie appreciating the shade on Mill Hill |
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| Broomrape at Mill Hill |
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| Great Black-backed Gull family |
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| only one chick seen so far |
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| Magnolia grandiflora in our garden |
Friday 28 June. I took Cookie to the Knepp Estate where the shade was much appreciated on a generally birdless hot morning. We saw 2 Turtle Doves, 6 Chiffchaffs, 2 Blackcaps, a Lesser and 2 Common Whitethroats, Mistle Thrush and 2 Bullfinches.
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| Painted Lady at Knepp |
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| purring Turtle Dove at Knepp |
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| Great Black-backed Gull with chick from our garden |
Thursday 27 June. Megan and I took Cookie up to Kithurst Hill and walked to Blackpatch Hill and Lee Farm. We saw a Buzzard, 30 Swifts, 9 Sky Larks, 5 Whitethroats, 20 Linnets and 14 Corn Buntings.
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| Megan heading towards Blackpatch Hill |
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| Cookie keen to get away from Blackpatch Hill and what sounded like sustained Clay Pigeon shooting |
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| approaching Lee Farm |
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| back on the roof |
Wednesday 26 June. At last the Great Black-backed Gulls at Glebelands have a chick.
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| Great Black-backed Gull at Glebelands |
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| first views of the chick |
Tuesday 25 June. I took Cookie to Cuckoo's Corner and we walked up the Adur seeing 2 Grey Herons, 6 Little Egrets, 3 Sky Larks, 12 House Martins (collecting mud and flying up to Lancing College), 11 Reed but no Sedge Warblers, 3 Whitethroats and 11 Reed Buntings. Back in Shoreham the Great Black-backed Gulls were sitting at Glebelands (for the 34th day) and 5 Swifts were feeding overhead.
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| Reed Bunting singing from a Broad Bean crop |
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| another male Reed Bunting |
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| female Reed Bunting |
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| another singing Reed Bunting |
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| and another |
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| Common Sheep-pecker family at Coombes |
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| Great Black-backed Gull at Glebelands, sitting for the 34th day ... |
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