A tweet from HR announcing a Great White Egret over the Sidlesham Ferry  Pool got me out of bed this morning. Seen going over the pool & sluice surely it must have dropped into the harbour...well I couldn't re-find it; a few bits around the gorse on the harbour path though including my first Willow Warbler of the year but no GWE. Bet it's there on Monday!

Took the bike down to Medmerry where I bumped into PH who put me onto the Little Ringed Plovers on the Stilt pools. The usual Spoonbill was also present along with 19 Avocets. At the back of the pools a Short-Eared Owl was  put up by a lost mountain biker and then by a lad on the path! This evening in Oving a Snipe flew over whilst I was sorting potatoes.


Spoonbill:

Short-Eared Owl:

Little Ringed Plover: