It was a bright and slightly breezy morning in the Arun Valley, with plenty of birds to see! We we walked through the entrance gate, we...

It was a perfect day for the first of our new series of Bird Discovery Walks, which took place at Burton and Chingford Ponds as the sun...

This afternoon local birder Stephen Simpson found a first-winter male Desert Wheatear on the beach at Goring Gap — a rare bird in...

Andy Ashdown led the Identify & Draw - Gulls, Ducks and Water Birds workshop at Swanbourne Lake today. The weather was superb, bringing...

I took Bentham on the dog-friendly route around Pulborough Brooks today, where a Little Ringed Plover was on the North Brooks, my first...

There were few signs of spring, beyond a couple of bright yellow clumps of narcissus, when I set out to walk from the Adur Estuary to...

A bright morning tempted me to go looking for Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers in the Arun Valley. It was a little cold and breezy, so I didn't...

Ahead of our upcoming 'Hare March!' I took a stroll around the Burpham area this morning as a recce, to get a feel for which fields are...

I headed over to Rye Harbour on Wednesday in the hope of seeing some of the variety of special visitors which have been on the reserve...

The filter beds were busy with birds at Waltham Brooks this morning, with a Grey Wagtail singing his metallic song being very hard to...

It doesn't get much better than an American bird turning up in Sussex... except when it's in the South Downs National Park too! The first...

We were excited to run our second Raptor Ramble event near Burpham on Saturday, following the success of the first last November. We and...

I ventured quite far out of the National Park this afternoon to spend an hour at Pett Level, which has been great for winter geese...

There has been a Shorelark wintering on a large stretch of beach in East Sussex lately. These unobtrusive birds have a face splashed with...

The mist hung over Arundel in the twilight early this morning, our second of this year's year list booster days, but thankfully not...

It was another beautiful winter morning, calm, cool and bright. The harsh, yet subtle, sounds of Hawfinches and the bizarre notes of...

The two days just gone saw me tour widely across the South Downs National Park and the nearby Sussex coastline in the EV. The weather was...

An early start in the Arun Valley got the day off to a good start. I met with Sally and Andy from Hampshire who joined me for the day to...

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

The coastal fields at Goring Gap have, in recent years, become the go-to site to look for Caspian Gull in West Sussex. In neighbouring...