North Cornwall V Pagham Harbour.

Having just returned from a holiday in North Cornwall it was good to be back on Pagham Beach despite the murky conditions this morning.

After a week of rain and more rain, conditions for birding were not favourable for photography and these images of Wagtails in the stream running into Porthcothan Bay were the only records. Choughs flew over the bay on a couple of occasions but were fleeting and a fair way away...certainly not birds to be encountered at Pagham.

Pied Wagtail

Grey Wagtail

However skeins of  Brent Geese were arriving in good numbers this morning.....some in fives and sixes and others in thirtys and forties...some accompanied by Shelduck and a few Wigeon.

...these with five Shelduck

This skein circled the harbour and may have landed, but way over the Sidlesham end.

  Other skeins flew on past the harbour mouth towards Chichester harbour.

A Little Egret was feeding in the Little Lagoon

A surprising number Red Admirals were enjoying the ivy

This spider caught my eye before the drizzle dampened my enthusiasm and I returned thinking how fortunate to live in this place where it never rains...much!