Friday 14 August 2015

Friday 14th August

The morning rain dropped in large numbers of waders with birds spread around the site. Highlights included the first Little Stint of the autumn, a juvenile, three Ruff, seven Curlew Sandpiper and a Golden Plover. Other counts included 300+ Dunlin, 210+ Ringed Plover, 120+ Sanderling, 21 Whimbrel, 20 Knot, five Bar and two Black-tailed Godwit, four Grey Plover, two Greenshank and a Snipe. Also brought into the Bight by the weather 89 Common and 13 Little Tern. Elsewhere a single Swift flew through and the Slavonian Grebe remains off Cockwood.

 Ruff - Lee Collins

Curlew Sandpiper - Lee Collins

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