In the end, we decided to go back to the car and grab Liz's scope so we could assess the assemblage of tree roosters. We managed to pick out 1 grey heron, multiple little egret, one cattle egret.....a wood pigeon and a squirrel. At one point I got excited as our suspected cattle egret - which neither of us had seen before today - appeared to have small grey-black blobs bouncing round the bottom....young? Alas, the scope was unable to depict whether it was a wood pigeon behind the tree they were on or young or something else....so we do not know.
We moved back carwards after a slight camera-stoppage, where I spotted something in the marshlands...
An egret at a distance, but closer to us something I spotted that looked like a godwit but was bigger and.....wasn't a godwit!
It was well camoflauged, but luckily Liz recognised it, as I had never seen one before..... a curlew!
Liz recognised its call, beak, plumage.....she had seen them before. So whattaday! So many new and exciting bird sightings, so many mysteries, some solved but not the little warbler-flycatcher thing in the tree, yet!
On Tuesday, Liz and I went to the tulip festival at Arundel Castle. Not only did we see tulips and other spring flowers - but a swan!
In fact, more than 1 swan.
I love that panorama of the Tulip Festival. What a beautiful place.
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