Birding has been a little limited during the past six weeks but shown below is a selection of a few photos from various walks to the North Wall and Pagham Spit.
Great Crested Grebes have met with some success on Breach pool and an adult with two youngsters were noted yesterday.
Sedge Warblers have been very vocal although song is now a lot less than earlier in June
Only yesterday this Reed Warbler appeared to be gathering nesting material.
This Common Tern is a 'regular', fishing on Breech Pool.
Nesting birds on Pagham Spit has been very disappointing due to several factors. Lack of available live gorse bushes (many have suffered from seawater ingress), erosion of shingle resulting in few sightings of Ringed Plovers with no attempted breeding and volume of people now being concentrated into a smaller walking area...due again to erosion of the beach.
Far fewer Linnets have attempted breeding and no Greenfinches or any other species seem to have had any success.
Tern and Gull numbers have increased considerably with great success on the harbour islands due to the work of the RSPB.
Good photographic opportunities have resulted for all three species of Tern, Sandwich, Common and Little.
A pair of Roseate Terns have been noted during the past weeks but regrettably no photos here!
I understand there are a number of these Oak Egger caterpillars on the reserve and I found this one today on the 'plastic' track to the beach.
..and finally a bird of a different kind. An impressive but noisy 1941 Stearman bi-plane over the spit!!
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