Some birds at Shoreham today including Red-breasted Mergansers

Lapwings on the estuary

 Widewater, Shoreham beach

 What are these ducks?  I had no correct idea!   My thanks to Paul James at  http://www.sos.org.uk/  for identifying them as Mallard hybrids.

 Little Grebe

 Red-breasted Mergansers

 Great-crested Grebe in Shoreham harbour from the Fort