One of the other things we booked in lockdown was to rent a bungalow in Bracklesham for a week s a family holiday partly encouraged by friends who had also booked the same week just 2 minute walk away.
The weather was definitely not beach weather with a fair amount of rain but mostly very strong SW winds. However we were pretty close to the Medmerry part of Pagham, so I managed to sneak away and made 4 visits here during the stay and had a reasonably good list of mainly waders visiting the Stilt Pools with the highlight being 2 Wood Sandpipers (the day I didn't take a camera !), 6 Common Sandpipers, Green Sandpiper, Avocet, Little Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, Snipe, Curlew, Redshank, Oystercatcher and Dunlin. A few Swallows and Sand Martins were moving through and a female Marsh Harrier was seen. The field edges held a good number of Yellowhammer, Goldfinch and Linnet.
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| Yellowhammer at Medmerry |
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| Yellowhammer |
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| Common Sandpiper on the Stilt pool |
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| Egyptian Geese - surely one of the world's greatest colonisers. |
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