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Pagham Birder: The Blog

A regular account of the birds seen mainly on and around Pagham Spit, the Lagoon and the North Wall plus other birding exploits from time to time.
Any news of interest regarding the ongoing erosion problems on Pagham Beach will, from now on, be shown on my other blog together with general beach photos.. Click on the link... Pagham Beach Blog on this page.

Friday, November 12, 2021

Water Rail on the Pagham Lagoon

At mid day as I was looking to find the female Goldeneye on the lagoon. I was pleasantly surprised to see this Water Rail walking/swimming along the edge. It didn't remain long as it was joined or chased by another one and took flight to a spot out of sight but a little further along.




It was not helped by these three dogs (part of a party of five) free running alongside the lagoon.



Little Grebe - one of several

The Goldeneye was still present and showed well.
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The four Goosanders remain but are quite mobile and, depending on the state of the tide, appear either in the harbour mouth or along the now depleted shingle beach and even on the Lagoon.




These photos were taken just off the beach as the tide was coming in.

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