4th July: Common Sandpiper + Godwit
This morning the weather was gorgeous: bright sunshine, hardly any clouds or breeze but not too hot.
The purple patch with the birds continues with a COMMON SANDPIPER this morning, to my knowledge and surprisingly only the second sighting on the Meadow this year and making a hat-trick of different sandpipers in three days! There was also BLACK-TAILED GODWIT on the floods though it appeared to have gone (or moved to somewhere more hidden) shortly afterwards. There was also a REDSHANK though it was rather flighty and kept moving about. The LITTLE EGRET count has now gone up to 6 and they now seem much more at home on the floods than before.
Apart from that, plenty of the usual birds including the COMMON TERNS, loads of black-headed gulls, a single lesser black-backed gull, lapwings galore etc.
The common sandpiper this morning © Peter Styles
The purple patch with the birds continues with a COMMON SANDPIPER this morning, to my knowledge and surprisingly only the second sighting on the Meadow this year and making a hat-trick of different sandpipers in three days! There was also BLACK-TAILED GODWIT on the floods though it appeared to have gone (or moved to somewhere more hidden) shortly afterwards. There was also a REDSHANK though it was rather flighty and kept moving about. The LITTLE EGRET count has now gone up to 6 and they now seem much more at home on the floods than before.
Apart from that, plenty of the usual birds including the COMMON TERNS, loads of black-headed gulls, a single lesser black-backed gull, lapwings galore etc.
The common sandpiper this morning © Peter Styles