A significant improvement in my neck & shoulder, and a few birds have meant that I’m back walking seriously for the first time in a while. On Monday we made use of the bank holiday to walk to Climping for the Little Stints, which showed ridiculously well. I ended up taking 1400 pictures, and over 1000 of them would have been worth keeping – much agonising and deletion needed. (Most of the pictures here have had their resolution significantly reduced to go onto the website.) Unfortunately, the Rose-coloured Starling on the way in Rustington disappeared shortly before we arrived and reappeared shortly after we left on the way home. It hung around, so on Friday I had the dubious pleasure of a long and tedious high-speed walk for a few minutes with a pretty dull bird, and then a dash back to go out to dinner. Still, it’s a rarity and a new bird for the on-foot list.
Meanwhile in the brooks behind us the Wasp Spiders are still around, and they are creating egg balls. Looks like we might see a significant increase in numbers again next year.