The August Bank Holiday weekend is traditionally a good time to see a coastal Wryneck. There have been a lot of Wryneck records from the Pagham area, usually either at the Severals in Church Norton or the North Wall area and historically I would think around st September is probably the peak date.
Unusually for this weekend we went to a large festival from Friday through to Sunday, CarFest, at Laverstoke Park in Hampshire, it was excellent, although felt a bit weird being among so many people given the restrictions over the last 18 months. I was going to say that there were no birds involved, but ironically I did see a Honey Buzzard over the car as we drove in the first day !
True to form, a Wryneck was found at the Severals, Church Norton on Sunday and also true to form the weather turned to a very cold strong northerly wind with leaden skies on the Monday to coincide with when I drove down to Church Norton.
The good news was that I saw the Wryneck, but in the strong winds that made my eyes water, unsurprisingly it was for the most part staying deep in cover only briefly popping out twice for a better view, but not for the camera. A Little Stint on the mud at Church Norton was the pick of other birds in the locality and one of the local Peregrines was flying around. A brief stop at the ferry pool produced 2 Spotted Redshanks, 100+ Black-tailed Godwit, 60+ Lapwing, 40 Dunlin and 2 Avocet, but it wasn't the day to hang around.
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| Believe it or not there's a Wryneck in the middle of this bush. |
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| Curlew |
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