Spring really does feel as though it's here now. Saturday was a lovely day with some sunshine and it starting to feel a bit warmer (at long last!), and the birds really helping it to feel very springlike.

Saturday morning was spent at Pagham Harbour, in the North Wall and Lagoon areas. Along with the usual wildfowl (teal, 100s of wigeon, mallards, tufties, pintails, and a few shovelers) and waders (redshank, curlews, lapwings, black-tailed godwits, grey plover), I saw four buzzards soaring, had a couple of cetti's warblers singing nearby (but couldn't see them), and a kestrel perched on top of a tree near me watching me watch her through my bins! And there are still loads of brent geese about, who were flying north up towards Lagness as the tide came in.

Down by the harbour mouth there was my first singing skylarks of the year - a couple of them singing their heads off - lovely! And the lagoon had some goldeneye, which was a year tick for me.

During the afternoon I visited Pulborough Brooks, which had a good number of ducks on the flooded fields although no new ones from what I'd seen earlier in the day at Pagham. I did see some redwing while there, and possibly a goldcrest or firecrest on the heathland area but not so sure what it was - only had a fleeting glimpse of it. I did enjoy watching the large herd of deer at the reserve, as well as a field mouse which seemed oblivious to me being there for some time.

And then at the end of the day, a very quick visit to Climping Gap bagged me some sanderling, a grey plover and a single black-tailed godwit.

No spring migrants though, although the wind direction was hardly conducive for that. I note that the weather forecast has the wind direction changing this week so perhaps that will be better for the migrants.