Here are the spectacled eiders and lots of swan geese.
And look who have appeared from nowhere after several months absence!
Here are the scaly-sided merganzers.
In two separate cages.
Next up my favourite display – the bewicks!
Mr and Mrs Silvertag Bewick were gliding about serenely...
...oblivious to our regarding them. They used to recognise me, but it seems they no longer do.
Of course, being a pigeon-empath/lover, I had to take a few shots of the show pigeon.
I wonder if it was a reborn show pigeon from my back yard in Australia....one that knew me from a former life....
After all, it did keep looking at me... and I was not eating anything it might have fancied munching.
Of course, it might have been a magician's dove, but despite the different shaped face and eye, it seemed more likely to be a show pigeon.
And that is the last shot I took of the tame show pigeon. Our next trip was to WWT Arundel again, as we sought a half day trip following Liz having had covid and feeling blah.
There are the pelicans and two mute swans....
My final picture for today is of the avocets in the wader-diver aviary.
We stopped off at Old Barn garden center on our way homewards, and I spotted a pied wagtail to attempt to photograph.
I tried and tried...but it was very fast and there were tables with people eating and drinking at the cafe in the way.
There was also a lot of rubbish people had dropped....so no wonderful pictures were captured.
It was a master at hiding between table legs and in the shade, sigh.
Our next trip was back to Pulborough Brooks – but this time we did not go into the reserve, but walked 2-3 woodland/brookland walks outside it. We did use the cafe and toilets at RSPB though, so I caught some show pigeon pictures!
There appeared to be a trio dancing on the rooftop.
After a while, jut as I had put my camera in my rucksack again, one flew down towards us.....
