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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.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Birding on the beach has been quiet recently but last week saw a large movement of Swifts moving east...the end of their summer and always the earliest to depart for winter quarters.  There was a Chiffchaff on the beach this morning flitting amongst the bushes and obviously 'feeding up' in preparation for a southward journey.
Juvenile Starlings have been teaming up and forming quite large roaming flocks...here's just one bird...


Sandwich Terns are still very much in evidence, some with sizeable sand eels...


From the Spit hide I watched an agitated Ringed Plover watching me...


She plumped up....
and then moved a little closer, sat down on a nest and started brooding...

Seems quite late in the season to start again!

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