Category: News

Big congratulations to SDOS member and fantastic photographer, Maria McGrath, for getting her brilliant shot of a Red-Spotted Bluethroat chosen as the RSPB magazine Star Photo! Well deserved – what a incredible photograph of a stunning bird!

For Swift Awareness Week , Worthing and Adur Swift Group has premiered a short film about some of our work. 2026 has been our year of the swift box – 100 boxes and 50 callers slated for installation this year, from a virtual standing start at the end of last season. Here’s that campaign in...

It’s so encouraging to see so many young people getting into birding! 😍 Here’s the latest SDOS piece in Inside Shoreham & Southwick magazine.

Another fabulous outing with SDOS this week – this time to Woolbeding in Sussex in search of Honey Buzzards. Led by birding legend Bernie Forbes, we got incredible views of these birds, along with Woodlark, Tree Pipit and Crossbill among others. 💚 Here is Bernie and Sue Miles’ detailed report of what was a fantastic...

Eight members joined Clive Hope from 0800 on Saturday morning in pleasant, increasingly warm, weather on the beach near Sea Lane Ferring, with a couple of passing Arctic Skuas the stars of the show. A few waders in the shape of Whimbrels (c.8), Sanderlings (6) and Grey Plovers (2) , plus Cormorants (7), and Great...

To feed or not to feed, that is the question! In the latest issue of Inside Shoreham & Southwick we discuss the changing attitudes to feeding our garden birds.

While most of our wintering waders have now left for their breeding grounds, some are still hanging on. Recently, a whopping eight Common Sandpipers were spotted hanging around by the Adur up near the cement works. This has since been logged as the most of these lovely little birds ever seen together on the Adur...

The SDOS AGM took place last week and was, as usual, a fantastic occasion with a great talk by Steve Lawless on birding in eastern Australia. The evening also saw SDOS chair and all-round hero, Tony Benton, step down from his position after four years in the hot-seat. The new Chair, the fantastic Jen Holter,...

The British Trust for Ornithology has launched their ‘Birds in Greenspaces’ project, a UK-wide citizen science survey of birds that use our public-access green spaces. If you’re not already a BTO member, you just sign up and then download the app. From here, you can record the birds you see in your local green space....

You never know what you’re going to see with spring migration now in full flow and, this week, an eagle-eyed SDOS birder spotted none other than a Stone Curlew on the beach by Widewater. These rare birds migrate from Africa and breed in northern Europe, with East Anglia a UK stronghold. However, these very odd...