Pagham sunset

Another glorious sunset over Pagham harbour late friday evening,with just the reed warblers singing and a cuckoo calling.Still some black-tailed godwits on the breach pool, now in full summer plumage,lots of swifts and swallows hunting insects over the water.

Somerset levels

Spent a few hours walking and birdwatching at Shapwick heath on the Somerset levels this afternoon with M.
Highlights included a fine male marsh harrier hunting over the reed beds,two bitterns seen and three booming males heard,three cuckoos seen close together, and over a dozen hobbies catching newly emerged four-spotted and broad-bodied chaser dragonflies above the reeds.
The whole area was alive with the birdsongs of willow warbler,chiff chaff, whitethroat,blackcap and reed warbler.