Whilst seawatching recently, a Peregrine came in off the sea carrying a bulky prey item. As it approached the land another Peregrine flew out to meet it and in the subsequent interaction, whether aggressive or not was unknown, the prey item was dropped into the sea and revealed as a Collared Dove which was just alive but subsequently drowned. The Peregrines here seem to specialise in putting on a show s I recall last year they combined over a period of fifteen minutes to kill a Little Gull by literally wearing it out with a dual attack.

Two stoats fighting outside the Castle Water hide then in front of the hide in the reed bed. A great crested grebe with 1 young, 3 whitethroats, 3 curlew flying round the reserve, 100+ cormorants, 20+ herring gulls with young, black-headed gulls with young, 1 mistle thrush, 2 reed buntings, 200+ lapwings, 1 sedge warbler, 2 lesser black-backed gulls, great views of marsh harriers, 2 little egrets, 2 green sandpipers, 3 common sandpipers, 8 little ringed plover (4 young), 5 sand martins, 5 swifts, 5 tufted duck, 2 ringed plover, 100+ sandwich terns with young, 1 barnacle goose, 3 little grebe (1 young) 3 Common Gulls, 7 shelduck (4 young), 8 redshank, 5 dunlin and 8 shoveler.

The resident screaming Herring Gulls alerted me to look up and see a single Buzzard high above Westdene at 10.15 this morning and later at 15.10 to see three more. All had been drifting slowly out of Brighton northwards towards the Dyke.

Once again my local seagulls, fellow residents here in Westdene North Brighton, sounded an alarm to draw my attention to a Red Kite flying NE. I just love those birds! Another first for my home list!

I've sighted a huge bird of prey - twice now on the road between Littlehampton and Bognor (Littlehampton end). Yesterday when sighted, it was flying and had a very big wing span (over 100cm I would say), almost like the size of a goose in flight. Can anyone help with the identity?

Four Whimbrels seen along River Ouse between Southease and Piddinghoe. Also 2 Oystercatchers and 1 Shelduck in the adjacent fields.

Male Blackcap showed well in my back garden in Sheppey Close, Broadfield, Crawley, a first for me here in over ten years.

Redwing feeding on the pyracantha berries in my back garden in Sheppey Close, Broadfield, Crawley, a first sighting for me here in over 10 years at this address.

Fieldfare feeding on the Pyracantha berries in my back garden in Sheppey Close, another first in over 10 years here.

Male Bullfinch feeding on the Pyracantha berries in my back garden in Sheppey Close, another first in over 10 years here.

Little Egret sighted flying overhead, a first for me in Crawley.