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On a guided tour around one of the many productive areas of Chichester Harbour we bumped into an old friend from Norway and enjoyed some of the delights from the midwinter season.

Goshawks and Woodcock in a Woodland Outing, Guided Birdwatching

It has been a warm winter and numerous days have felt spring-like. A trip to the woods in early February was such a day, full of activity and birdsong. From the off, ravens could be heard. They were somewhere behind the canopy of branches above us. Fortuitously one flew towards us and we watched as it flew just above the treetops in our vicinity. A chaffinch was singing, the first song from this species that I had heard this year. A favourite of many, a treecreeper, gave a brief view as it characteristically landed at the base of a large tree and worked its way up the ivy-covered trunk.

I had planned a shorter guided outing to Nutbourne Channel, Chichester Harbour, although it ended up being not so short! This is an area where you can often get closer to wetland bird species than at most locations. There had been a lot of rain recently, fortunately this trip was on a wonderful winters day, bright and crisp.

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