Liz heard a strange bird call and neither of us knew it. Soon after we spotted the culprit - a red kite!
We saw a lot of birds on our trip - and heard pheasant and skylark, robin and bluetit, as we wandered thru the woodlands of Angmering Park Estate on our trek to Arundel.
We spotted a reed warbler - or similar bird - and I tried to get a photo. It IS in there somewhere, but....
...other than a small straw-colored moving dot, we could barely see it without noccies, which we had not brung....
It then went down to the base of the stalks...
...and finally, there it was - my camera finally finding the bird.
We arrived in Arundel - partly the luck of Liz's memory of shorter walks and partly the fact I had printed out a walking track map. We stopped for coffee/toilet usage and for me to grab a vegan wrap at Co-op. Then we trekked onward, the plan being to follow the river down into Littlehampton - my computer having informed me it was possible to walk the route between the two towns. We passed an ornate door on a birdlovers' house en route.
That tiny dot was a buzzard.
A bird on the door and a bird in the window-- you should have left a note with this blog's address. :D
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