SE Hampshire - 21st-23rd August

I’ve been able to get out and about on and off over the last few days and aside from a brief visit to Pennington Marshes I have concentrated on trying to find migrants in the Langstone Harbour area, including Hayling Island and Farlington Marshes. Basically the expected areas such as Northney Paddocks and the bushes at Farlington have contained the expected Warblers such as, Whitethroats, Chiffchaffs, Blackcap and the odd Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitetroat and Spotted Flycatcher. Yellow Wagtails have been a near constant feature particularly at Farlington. There seems to be poor numbers of waders but the rubbish neap tide is giving them more options of high tide roost sites so they are less concentrated. A single Spotted Redshank is about as good as it has got. Singles of juv Curlew Sandpiper and juv Little Stint were the best of very few birds in the Pennington area on 21st Aug.

The undoubted highlight is the continued presence of two Ospreys in Langstone Harbour which are pretty easy to find but always distant. When they are not flying around, one bird seems to favour South Binness Island and the other uses marker posts (usually a red one) near to the west Hayling shore.