A wonderful afternoon at Arundel Wildfowl and Wetland trust, in absolutely perfect weather. During a walk around the reserve and a half-hour boat trip we saw Osprey, Peregrine, Hobby (x2!) Buzzard, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk and Kestrel!
Also present were Great White Egret and Great Spotted Woodpecker, as well as two pairs of egg laying Willow Emerald Damsels.
There's an incredibly-coloured mixed seed crop behind Walsey Hills at the moment: Millett and Flax I can i/d, but what is the beautiful red /orange plant? It looks like a member of the dock family...
Our total communications blackout meant I couldn't chat with Jules Button on Suffolk Sound this month: so, here are October's celestial fireworks!
For the past four days we've been without a landline or internet connection, entirely because an 'engineer' connected all the cables at the top of a new telegraph pole the wrong way round. Today, it seems to have been restored by a BT engineer and a new router: fingers crossed!
On Tuesday Norman and I spent a day on the North Coast, mostly at Cley, but briefly on Kelling Heath. Nothing new, but some worthwhile birds, including four distant Glossy Ibis (from the VC!), three Red-throated Divers, an obliging Water Rail on Snipe's and a choochy Little Stint on Pat's Pool.
