As the clouds dispersed this morning I felt it was time to take Big Bertha for her first outing of the year. A quick visit to the North wall produced very little so I opted to visit Church Norton. A Song Thrush was singing its heart out in the churchyard but apart from that, a stroll along the path to the Long Pool produced absolutely nothing...apart from a flock of Wood Pigeon. As I returned to the car park for a coffee I bumped into the Bald Eagles on their New Years Bird Race as they were returning from a brief sea watch, unimpressed that they had dipped out on a Ringed Plover in the harbour but delighted they had caught up with a Water Pipit earlier in Fishbourne Creek!
I returned to the harbour and photographed a few Teal
some blowing bubbles!
...and then made my way to the beach, but apart from a few Turnstones and two very distant Slavonian Grebes and a Med Gull there was very little to get excited about.
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| Turnstone on the beach |
Nevertheless it was good to see the sun again and on returning via the feeding station (which I hadn't seen before) I was slightly disappointed that I had not been able to take greater advantage of the good lighting conditions.
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| Female Chaffinch attracted by the seed hoppers |
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| Great Tit |
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