Today has been one of those days of not being at the right place at the right time having spent 2 hours this morning and another 2 hours this afternoon waiting to catch a glimpse of the Squacco Heron. On both occasions I was told I "should have been here 10 minutes ago!" Tomorrow is another day but I only have a short window of opportunity early in the day.
During the week I have been keeping an eye out for early migrants and on Friday did find my first 2 returning Wheatears on Pagham Spit. We also had 5 Willow Warblers and a Blackcap in a birch tree in the garden on Thursday so I thought the North Wall would be good but I could only find a single Whitethroat!
A Magpie was deciding which way to go
...and the 2 Cattle Egrets were on the high tide roost site.
Wader numbers are increasing and a few small mixed flocks (Dunlin and Turnstone) were wheeling around at high tide.
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| Today the Egret roost held good numbers of Little Egrets plus the now usual Cattle Egrets...but no Squacco! |
Butterflies were the highlight on the beach with scores of Painted Ladies visiting the buddleia.
Hopefully the Squacco will remain until I can 'tick' it!
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