Last evening as I was returning from Pagham Spit at 7.30pm a flock of 90 Yellow Wagtails flew overhead followed 10 minutes later by a further 20. This morning a few were still flying over mostly (as last night) going north. Along the North Wall this morning there were a dozen or so mingling with the cows in front of Honer farm and later 7 were found in the horse enclosure by the Salthouse.
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Yellow Wagtail |
Slightly unusually a Tufted Duck was feeding right by the sluice gate
...and a Kingfisher shot past me like a brilliant jewell!
A couple of Wheatears were darting along the wall and a few Whitethroats were in the bushes but nothing of real interest all the way to Halsey Farm where as usual the Rooks were as noisy as ever.
A little further on I thought I'd got a really good shot of a Swallow alighting on a telephone wire but like so many other times I get home and look it on the screen and ....another disappointment! anyway here it is...
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it could have been a good one but.....its a 'bin'job
Oh well, lets hope for a better day tomorrow...it's all a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
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There's nothing wrong with a Collared Dove...a mega rarity in the 1950s when I saw my first one! |