More about surviving the last couple of weeks still not having shaken the bug I picked up in Vietnam, with the Doctors not having helped much other than now agreeing that I must have picked something up in Vietnam !!. So I was referred on Monday to the Tropical diseases clinic in London, but have heard nothing from them .. all a bit frustrating, but at least I've finally finished the trip write-up on the page on the right.
I went to Selsey Bill this morning, this is potentially the main week or so to for Spring passage, it was quiet by any standard with no real movement of birds .
4 Great Skuas in total, with 7
Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Whimbrel, 5 inbound
Swifts, a single
Common Scoter and plenty of
Common/Arctic, Sandwich and
Little Terns. I had to return home promptly as Hannah had an Athletics match in Portsmouth, I called in briefly at the Ferry pool at Siddlesham and was surprised to see a male
Garganey at the back of the pool and a smart looking
Whinchat.
At home, as well as
Robins and
Blue Tits using the nestboxes,
Wren, Dunnock and
Blackbird are in the hedge, a
Nutchatch in one of the big Oaks along with
Stock Doves (and Jackdaws !) and a
Firecrest is singing in the gully outside the back door. At least one pair of
Siskins are in the long line of trees along with
Goldfinch and
Chaffinch and 2 singing
Chiffchaffs and a
Blackcap indicate nesting. Plenty of
Buzzards are seen daily and a
Swift fly over on the 30th April.
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| This boat was about as much passage at the Bill. |
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| 7 Bar-tailed Godwits |
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| 2 Bar-tailed Godwits overhead |
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| 3 Distant Great Skuas |
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| The same 2 Mallards that arrived last year for about a month have appeared around the small pond again daily |
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| A pair of Robins have made use of the porcelain hat we stuck on the barn. |
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| The tulips I planted have done incredibly well. |
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