Thirsty

After about a month without any decent amount of rain, it's noticeable how the birds are frequenting one of our water features for a drink. Pairs of Blue Tits, Great Tits and Greenfinches are continually quenching their thirst there.

A pair of Glossy Ibises have been showing up along the south coast, including the Breech Pool at Pagham (Source: SOS). I saw a couple of large black birds in the distance flying over Nyetimber yesterday, normally I would have put them down as Cormorants, but it did strike me that their flight was different, more ragged and less direct than I'd associate with Cormorants. Maybe....

Tephritis Onopordinis

Tephritis Onopordinis is also known as Celery fly and our garden has been swarming with them for 3 days. It seems they also like parsnips - ours are all totally blighted and teeming with larvae. This one is sitting on our asparagus.

Nuthatch

Good view of a Nuthatch high up in one of the trees along The Avenue in Chichester. First Nuthatch of the year.