A Bitter Day !

Only 1°c this morning with a fresh north easterly wind blowing and making it feel more like -5°c! A lot of weed has come ashore during the night and the Turnstones are accompanied by Redshanks and a few Oystercatchers searching for grubs along the tideline. The harbour is relatively empty of birds compared with the past couple of mornings....only a few Brents and Lapwings but Curlew and Dunlin are feeding in the centre of the harbour. A couple of Little Grebes are fighting against the fast outgoing tide, diving and swimming hard to virtually stay in the same place. A lone Peregrine is crouched low on New Island ..... one of his favourite spots. Although snow is forecast for some of the U.K. I doubt if we will see any...we rarely do in Pagham!!