Purple Sandpiper
Recent sightings
Date | Species | Site | Count | Observer |
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27/04/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Barton on Sea | 1 | S Keen |
08:15 | Single with 2 Turnstones on the rocks below eastmost car park. | |||
11/04/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 1 | J J Goodridge |
08:00 | Five birds on rocks below just east of Southsea Castle. | |||
04/04/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 2 | T D Chapman |
11:00 | Distant view. On rocks near waves east of castle. | |||
22/03/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 13 | D Stevenson |
11:40 | East of castle. | |||
13/03/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 8 | J Goodspeed |
15:00 | At least probably more. | |||
08/03/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 13 | D Stevenson |
11:00 | 13 seen. | |||
05/03/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 11 | J J Goodridge |
09:00 | Took some finding, but eventually found at least 11 birds searching for food on the algae covered rocks just east of the Castle. | |||
02/03/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 8 | I A Smith |
10:39 | In front of the castle. Minimum count. | |||
27/02/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 4 | C B Collins |
16:12 | 4 seen near high tide at 1200 plus 1 Dunlin feeding in amongst the rocks etc and a very tame Fox nearby. | |||
24/02/24 | Purple Sandpiper | Southsea Castle | 12 | M Parkes |
14:47 | Possibly more! On the usual groyne. |