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Pagham Birder: The Blog

A regular account of the birds seen mainly on and around Pagham Spit, the Lagoon and the North Wall plus other birding exploits from time to time.
Any news of interest regarding the ongoing erosion problems on Pagham Beach will, from now on, be shown on my other blog together with general beach photos.. Click on the link... Pagham Beach Blog on this page.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Revetment progress

These rocks arrived  late evening last night.

Work continues on the rock revetment and a further barge load of rocks arrived on this mornings high tide.

Charlie Rock  81.9 metres in length built in 1984 

Discharging rocks on the beach this morning.
 Later, the rocks were taken truck by truck to the groyne whereupon two JCBs carefully manoeuvred   the rock piece by piece into position.





 The mother ship Rekefjord and the barge Charlie Rock and the tug have now departed. 
A further consignment of rocks from Cornwall are due later next week.
Work continues under floodnight this evening.

Bird News

Little to report apart from a Kingfisher fishing near the original harbour entrance. Numbers of Brent continue to increase.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Keep up the good work it's nice to see,lovely bird photograph
Well done