A pair of Shelduck feeding in a shallow pool. The female with the pale face moves off to the right.
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#shelduck
#duck

A Common Redshank catching a Ragworm today in the saltmarsh Rye Harbour. It caught 9 of these in about 5 minutes!
Video slowed down 8 times.
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#redshank

A fishing Spotted Redshank today Rye Harbour at the west end of the Salt Pool. It caught 2 fish in 5 minutes, but sadly not in this video.
Lovely light on a sparkling bird.
Video at half speed.
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#wader

A Barn Owl resting on a branch of an old Oak, at 5am last week.
The last clip is slowed to a third speed.
#owl

Wigeon feeding on the flooded Flat Beach yesterday at Rye Harbour.
They are filtering out the saltmarsh seeds, so let's hope they can recognise a Southern Water bio-bead as not being food!
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#biobeads
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#wigeon

Golden Plover being scared from their daytime roost by some unseen threat from the right...
Flat Beach at Rye Harbour this morning @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Video at a quarter speed.
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Ringed Plovers roosting at high tide, together with Dunlin, Wigeon, Shoveler, a Golden Plover and a Common Snipe.
On Flat Beach at Rye Harbour this morning.
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A drake Shoveler feeding (at a quarter speed), filtering out the plankton with its specialised bill.
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