Saturday 19th July: Dunlin & Godwits
This morning, quite breezy northly wind with scattered showers.
There was a rather nice flock of 11 summer plumage DUNLIN near stint corner (*) this morning. Further along by the north cove (*) there were 3 REDSHANKS. There were also 4 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS (WoM) though they left mid morning. Apart from that 2 LITTLE EGRETS on the floods and the usual black-headed gulls and COMMON TERNS. A few nice linnets feeding on the grass field between the floods and the river.
Some of the dunlin © Steve Burch
(*) see map of location names
There was a rather nice flock of 11 summer plumage DUNLIN near stint corner (*) this morning. Further along by the north cove (*) there were 3 REDSHANKS. There were also 4 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS (WoM) though they left mid morning. Apart from that 2 LITTLE EGRETS on the floods and the usual black-headed gulls and COMMON TERNS. A few nice linnets feeding on the grass field between the floods and the river.
WoM: OYSTERCATCHER 3, SPARROWHAWK - chasing and catching a juv starling.
Some of the dunlin © Steve Burch(*) see map of location names