East Head

I was hoping to get in a bit more bush bashing in the closing hours of the autumn but quite a strong southwestely was blowing with plenty of rain too. However as I've paid for a season parking ticket I decided to stick to the plan and still did East Head and Snowhill this morning. As expected very little in the way of any passerine action but the tide was high and there was a very good selection of waders and waterfowl on Snowhill Marsh and Creek. 60 species of over 2500 individuals in nearly 4 hours HERE. 

Highlights included an increase of Brents to at least 600 (still only small numbers in Pagham Harbour which presumably are an overflow population from Chichester Harbour or a geographically seperate population that migrate later), a good selection of waders including 7 Greenshank, Barwits and Knots, 6 Sandwich Terns feeding in the creek and a couple of Firecrest in the church yard. 

Basically, it's winter! 

Sandwich Tern 

Greenshank and Grey Plover 

A family party of Brents

Snowhill waders- Golden Plovers, Barwits, Blackwits, Dunlin, Curlew and Redshank 

Dunlins

Redwing- surprisngly not that easy to see on the Peninsula so nice to get a view of one today

Firecrest- that's my xmas card photo sorted for this year