Nice to be slagged off on the Selsey Blog for reporting that SR, a local birder, had seen the Short Eared Owl at North Wall perched in a tree! (Presumably the same person who said to her that it was a Buzzard, to which the reply was: "I do know the difference!").

I prefer face-to-face "debate" if anyone cares..

The SEO did show by the way despite what you may read elsewhere, at the very back being mob driven from the tree to the ground and then later in almost darkness from the path to the reservoir. Funny how all the birders were gone by 4:20 (if you'll pardon the expression) and yet moaned they never saw it!...rant over and out from Oving. :-)) Two Bearded Tits from the Wall in the Breach Pool reeds was a bonus for standing there loafing!

So anyway, today no luck for me for the Snow Bunting on the ground but I might have had two flyover Pagham Spit, sounded and loked good but wouldn't like to be 100% certain. A Kingfisher at Norh Walls.

In the harbour, a Bar-Tailed Godwit having a preen and lots of great wildfowl, pity about the weather!



Bar-Tailed Godwit:

Kingfisher: