What a day! This morning I travelled to Arundel to visit the WWT. The last time I visited it was an ice rink and most of the water was frozen! Thankfully this time the ground and water were ice-free. Before heading to any of the hides, I had a wonder along the reed bed path. It is an amazingly peaceful walk. As I rounded one of the corners wading in the water in front of some of the reeds was a Water Rail! It was what I was hoping to see, well that and a Bittern. No luck on the Bittern but the Water Rail was beautiful and I had a fantastic 4-5 minute encounter. Some of the pictures I took are down below. A few extra ones are on my Flickr account, link on the right. After some lunch, brought from the café at the WWT (very tasty!), I headed on to Brighton for a spot of Starling watching. 20000-30000 Starlings must have showed up! As always amazing to watch! The only downside was that it was cloudy and not the best for photography, still I got some good pictures. I will be uploading the best from my 2 Brighton trips in the near future.
Andy
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