Big congratulations to SDOS member and fantastic photographer, Maria McGrath, for getting her brilliant shot of a Red-Spotted Bluethroat chosen...
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Worthing & Adur Swift Group Celebrate Summer Work
For Swift Awareness Week , Worthing and Adur Swift Group has premiered a short film about some of our work....
New Kids on the Birding Block
It’s so encouraging to see so many young people getting into birding! 😍 Here’s the latest SDOS piece in Inside...
SDOS Outing In Honey Buzzard Heaven
Another fabulous outing with SDOS this week – this time to Woolbeding in Sussex in search of Honey Buzzards. Led...
Arctic Skuas Star At SDOS Ferring Seawatch
Eight members joined Clive Hope from 0800 on Saturday morning in pleasant, increasingly warm, weather on the beach near Sea...
Inside Shoreham & Southwick: Bird Food For Thought.
To feed or not to feed, that is the question! In the latest issue of Inside Shoreham & Southwick we...
EIGHT! Common Sandpipers Spotted On Adur
While most of our wintering waders have now left for their breeding grounds, some are still hanging on. Recently, a...
SDOS Pays Tribute To Outgoing Chair Tony Benton At AGM
The SDOS AGM took place last week and was, as usual, a fantastic occasion with a great talk by Steve...
BTO Launches Birds In Greenspaces Project
The British Trust for Ornithology has launched their ‘Birds in Greenspaces’ project, a UK-wide citizen science survey of birds that...
Rare Sighting Of Stone Curlew At Widewater
You never know what you’re going to see with spring migration now in full flow and, this week, an eagle-eyed...
Adur SSSI Action Plan Finally Published
After many years of hard work from SDOS, and more recently, the fabulous Friends of Adur SSSI, Natural England have...
Goshawks Star In SDOS Walk At West Dean
This week, SDOS legend Bernie Forbes, led a walk to West Dean woods in West Sussex. The target bird was...
Curlew From Head-Starting Scheme Returns Again To Adur
A tagged Curlew has returned again to the Adur Estuary SSSI, obviously enjoying the surroundings! The bird, recognisable by its...
Green Sandpiper Enjoying Bramber Puddles
A gorgeous little Green Sandpiper has been making the most of the wet fields by Maudlin Lane near Bramber. A...
Eagle, Adder And Woodcock Star In SDOS Trip To Pulborough
Dave Philips led a group of 23 SDOS members on an excellent morning outing to Pulborough Brooks on Wednesday, with...
SDOS Barn Owl Box Survives Storm Goretti
Our Barn Owl box at Bramber Brooks fell victim to the recent storms, with its host Ash tree getting a...
Inside Shoreham & Southwick magazine: Visiting Birds Get Ringing Endorsement
The fascinating journeys of our ringed birds take centre stage in the last SDOS piece in Inside Shoreham and Southwick...
Mill Hill Gets Helping Hand From Old Friends
The fantastic Friends of Old Shoreham (FOldS) have been working on Mill Hill local nature reserve to help restore the...
Hundreds Of Snipe Give Spectacular Show On Adur Reserve
Up to 300 Snipe did their own version of a Starling murmuration on the Adur Estuary RSPB reserve this week,...
Widewater Plans Feature On BBC
Plans to replace a mitigation pipe on the Widewater Lagoon in Lancing are the focus of a BBC story. Click...
Common Cranes At Amberley Wild Brooks
Three Common Cranes have been spotted at Amberley Wild Brooks – stunning birds who are most likely just passing through...