The bird suddenly appeared in a bush adjacent to Owl Point in Pagham Harbour at 8.30 this morning near to where I had just located a Whinchat which had moved on from its spot and I had wrongly assumed this was the same bird. It was perched high on a bush in typical Whinchat fashion and as I was looking at it against the light it was difficult to see the distinctive markings on the back. The original photographs on the camera screen looked poor and not until I had processed then on the computer did I realise this was not a Whinchat! Initially I thought it was just another Sedge Warbler but then I realised this was something 'different'. I couldn't get a reply from the local birders who I knew would confirm ID and it wasn't until the evening that I received confirmation...as it happens, the 200th bird for the Selsey Peninsular this year, so I'm told!
Just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Here are few of my pics...
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| Aquatic Warbler..usually a skulking bird! |
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| Rear view...showing the pointed tail feathers |
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| Wow...what a bird! |
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Whitethroats were showing along the hedgerows....
Goldfinch flocks were feeding on the weed seeds and this Greypate was particularly obliging...
A large flock of waders suddenly took off from the Breech pool on my return but I could not see the cause of the disturbance....
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| Serenity at the sluice gate. |
A superb morning walk around the harbour and what a fortunate find!
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