Just as soon as I set out for the Spit hide I realised there were a few migrants on the move...Hirundines mostly but Warblers, Chats and Pipits. A couple of Wheatears were in the old car park area and as I set up the camera a group of 6 Meadow Pipits literally fell out of the sky into a bush not 20 feet away from me.
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Wheatears looking good in the early morning Autumn sunshine |
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One of the six Meadow Pipits. |
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...and another Wheatear on the shoreline |
Swallows and House Martins were mainly hawking insects over the Lagoon but a few occasional rested on the telephone wires.
Plenty of waders in the harbour but this Curlew caught my eye as it was fishing for crabs with great success.
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Curlew...crabbing
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...whilst this Herring Gull watched on
Back in the garden I played with the camera experimenting with varying backgrounds with a resident Dunnock.
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....and then a Blue Tit posed for the camera.
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is that a feather out of place! |
Well that's it for Pagham Spit but I was up at Cissbury yesterday looking for Ring Ouzels and I notice that Alastair from Brighton put a comment on the SOS web site. I met him for the first time and we watched
the Yew tree for some time as we chatted but as he mentioned we only saw 2 Mistle Thrushes...here they are.
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A couple of Mistle Thrushes in THE tree. |
t ...and then it was on Pulborough Brooks
...and a few Phylloscopus.
In Fattingates a Great Spot showed well.
A couple of Redstarts and 2 Spotted Flycatchers also present around the reserve.