Trip reports

A Walk Along The River Ouse.

A Walk Along The River Ouse.
Andy Hay (rspb-images.com)

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Fourteen members of the RSPB's Eastbourne & District Local Group met up in Newhaven, on Wednesday 11th January 2012, to walk northwards along the western bank of the Sussex Ouse as far as the village of Piddinghoe.

It was a beautiful morning with a temperature of 11ºC, bright sunshine and a light westerly
wind.

In all we managed to see 34 species: Wood pigeon, great tit, blue tit, long-tailed tit, house sparrow, chaffinch, redwing, starling, lapwing, great spotted woodpecker, pheasant, moorhen, blackbird, common sandpiper, mistle thrush, common buzzard, little grebe, stonechat, herring gull, carrion crow, magpie, goldfinch, jackdaw, great black-backed gull, black-headed gull, robin, grey heron, rook, cormorant, redshank, dunnock, greenfinch, pied wagtail, dunlin.

Green woodpeckers were heard but not seen.

We all agreed that it was a venue worth revisiting!

(David Jode)

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