Another few hours morning birding down at Pagham was today's agenda. It was warm and bright with a few clouds and a brisk westerly wind but the tide was at it's low point again, just like 2 weeks ago. Through choice I would normally aim to get there a couple of hours before the high tide at the point the tide starts to rise which generally would generate movement of birds with feeding and flight to their high tide roosts, but I've been snatching moments to get out when I can, rather than semi-planned in advance.
The bushes around the information centre again held reasonable numbers of Whitethroat, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Sedge Warbler and Reed Warbler and several Green Woodpeckers. Two Wheatears were recent migrant birds and the Ferry pool held 5 Common Sandpipers and lots of Lapwing and Redshank and 2 Dunlin but only 6 Black-tailed Godwit.
Walking down to Church Norton evident migrants comprised several yellowy Willow Warblers and a single Whinchat perched on some gorse which quickly vanished (the Whinchat not the Gorse). The harbour held very little, just a few Curlew, and small number of Little Egrets and a single Peregrine. Having returned to the Ferry pool seeing a Greenshank perhaps one the same Wheatear and likewise the Whinchat distantly at the back.
So again a few decent birds but numbers remain low. I had a brief stroll beyond the farm in the back lane at the weekend and saw Whitethroat and Spotted Flycatcher and a distant flock of 14 Canada Geese among commoner species.
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