Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Monday and Tuesday

A shopping trip to Chichester was a write-off as the shops I had intended to visit were closed due to power outage!!

The Ravens were either silent or still absent from the Bishops Garden but the Peregrines were noisy with the male putting on a nice show before landing on the north-east side of the upper tracery.












After chores on Tuesday a stroll from the Cockleshell carpark to the south end of Swan Lake was quiet despite a flat calm high tide; sadly no divers.

The three Scaup were still asleep as were a couple of Teal; one of the Scaup is a 2cy drake now beginning to moult into its next plumage. Sadly, my phone's camera is very poor.














Tuesday 7th, Thursday 9th

Tuesday saw a brief visit to Arundel which, after some cold weather, was very short of wildfowl, gulls and Snipe. A Kingfisher was very watchable but too far for pictures unlike this egret which was just 5-6 metres away. For the first time in many visits no Cattle Egrets nor Marsh Harriers















Thursday was mostly a lunch visit to GWH with nothing of note.