Saturday 9th May Little Ringed Plover & Common Sandpipers
A good day weather-wise with little wind and mostly sunny.
A visit to the Meadow this morning turned up nothing unusual at all. An evening visit was better with a distant COMMON TERN flying along the river and a single LITTLE RINGED PLOVER on the west shore of the floods. It seems that recently any birds of interest are turning up at the end of the day. Perhaps the floods, in their nearly dried out condition, are not really good enough to hold birds for any length of time but tired migrants will stop to rest there at the end of the day before pressing on at first light the next day.
To add weight to this theory, 3 COMMON SANDPIPERS were reported along the east shore this evening as well (WoM - JG).
Little more than a record shot unfortunately of the little ringed plover, shot into the light in windy conditions and at a distance © Adam Hartley
A visit to the Meadow this morning turned up nothing unusual at all. An evening visit was better with a distant COMMON TERN flying along the river and a single LITTLE RINGED PLOVER on the west shore of the floods. It seems that recently any birds of interest are turning up at the end of the day. Perhaps the floods, in their nearly dried out condition, are not really good enough to hold birds for any length of time but tired migrants will stop to rest there at the end of the day before pressing on at first light the next day.
To add weight to this theory, 3 COMMON SANDPIPERS were reported along the east shore this evening as well (WoM - JG).
Little more than a record shot unfortunately of the little ringed plover, shot into the light in windy conditions and at a distance © Adam Hartley