Sunday 6 May 2012

Pagham harbour: cold spring day

Cold and damp down on the North wall at Pagham harbour today,but good numbers of birds around .
Two short-eared owls still hunting over the reedbeds behind the horse field,sometime resting on the fence posts before returning to hunt.
The two glossy ibis are now at the back of the north field next to owl copse
Lots of reed and sedge warblers in the reed beds around the breach pool and over 100 swallows  hawking insects low over the water.
Nice to see a few wheatears still around on the rocks below the path.  
Out in the harbour itself were a pair of noisy oystercatchers,some ringed plovers and at least ten whimbrel.