I caught the train from Brighton to Chichester, as usual, and took the 51 bus to outside the visitor centre of RSPB Pagham Harbour. I walked to the Ferry Pool, and then down the path north of the Ferry Chanel to Sidlesham Quay; then along the path that hugs the harbour through the mud flats up to and along the North Wall, then walked south on the east side of White Creek, following the mudflat path at the edge of the harbour to Pagham Spit (shingle). I returned to Chichester on the 600 bus from Pagham.
It was a very dark, overcast day, which made taking photographs very difficult. The photographs are in chronological order.
Bird species seen: Blue Tits, Great Tits, Long-Tailed Tits, Avocets, Redshanks, Curlew, Lapwing, Teal, Wigeon, Mallards, Shovelers, Moorhens, Coots, Little Egrets, Canada Geese, Brent Geese, a Kingfisher, a Grey Wagtail, Herring Gulls, Black-Headed Gulls, a Kestrel, Carrion Crows, Magpies, House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Crested Grebes,
On the bird feeders by the visitor's centre there was this squirrel.
Great Tits
Ferry Pool
Avocet and Teal
Teal
Avocets and Teal
Ferry Channel
Teal
Redshank
Moorhen
Redshank
Robin Robin trail poster. For details see: Robin Robin adventure trail at Pagham Harbour (rspb.org.uk)
Kingfisher on the wall of the sluice that evacuates water from the Ferry Pool into the Ferry Channel
Back at the Ferry Pool
Avocet and Shovelers
Back on the Ferry Channel
Grey Wagtail, in channel of sluice
Great Crested Grebe and Redshank
Kingfisher
Great Crested Grebe
Black Headed Gull
Redshank
Magpie, from Robin Robin
Kestrel above the Ferry Channel saltmarshes
Sidlesham Quay
Little Egret
Canada Geese
Long-Tailed Tit
Mallards
Wigeon
Lapwings
The path through the top of the saltmarsh to the North Wall
Canada Geese
Great Black-Backed Gulls (near Pagham Spit)
North Wall
Teal
Wigeon
Shelduck
Teal
Lapwing
The Breach Pool (north of North Wall)
Curlew
Breach Pool (South Downs in the background)
White's Creek
Curlew
Teal, Wigeon and Lapwing, White Creek (looking south to Church Norton)
Reeds along the Saltmarsh path to Pagham Spit
The remnants of a grove of trees.
Brent Geese (Church Norton on opposite bank)
Brent Geese
Brent Geese
Harbour Mouth/Pagham Spit
Teal
Harbour Mouth
Pagham Spit (Bognor Regis in the background)
Brent Geese in a pool on Pagham Spit
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