A Wheatear...Spring has sprung!

The first Wheatear of the year is always memorable none more so than on a 'perfect' morning like this morning. As I was wandering up Pagham Spit I looked across to New Island (Peregrine Island) and saw this white dot of a bird...with a very upright stance. Couldn't be anything else apart from a wheatear. Great! 

Even with a 560mm lens it is a still very small image....but unmistakable!
 There were another couple on the spit but both were flighty and unapproachable!

My other highlight was a fairly close encounter with a seal as it made its way out of the harbour on the ebb tide.

Mute Swans on the move..

 ...and a Skylark on one of the remaining posts on the south side of the Little Lagoon. (Eighteen boundary posts have recently been lost as the result of recent storm erosion)

Looking forward to more Spring migrants in the next week or so.