KEYHAVEN
Today was very windy, decidedly chilly and with the threat of rain in the air. A typical March day in fact, the trouble is that it's August. What a wonderful country we live in - not.
We went to Keyhaven where as usual we parked opposite the Gun Inn, walked the sea wall as far as Pennington, returning along the inland path. Digiscoping was out of the question, it was much too windy, and looking through the scope was difficult.
There were large numbers of Black-tailed Godwits on the flooded field next to Avon Water, Redshanks galore on the mud fringing Avon Water itself, where a Sedge Warbler picked its way along the base of the reeds. A Whimbrel was feeding out on the marsh and further out there were Common and Little Terns, but on the whole it was very quiet apart from Snipe on Fishtail Lagoon, and two Wood Sandpipers on Butts.
At the furthest point from the car, the rain started, a persistent drizzle which made the walk back to the car thoroughly miserable.
Posted by Frampton25 at August 14, 2006 07:02 AM