Wednesday 13th August: Greenshank & Godwits
This morning sunny but breezy with a bit of an autumnal feel to it.
Yesterday's rain meant that the floods had been topped up again and a lot of the mud has now been re-covered. Along the north shore between the north cove and Burgess creek were a GREENSHANK and a REDSHANK. At north cove were two COMMON SANDPIPERS with another along the north shore. Along the north or south shore lines were a total of 9 RINGED PLOVER and at least 5 DUNLIN. There were 5 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS (islandica) in Burgess channel. 5 SNIPE were seen hidden in the flooded grass though there could well have been more. There was a single juvenile LITTLE RINGED PLOVER down in the south tail.
From Blog Comment:
Lunchtime: 5 Black-tailed Godwits still, 7 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 4 TEAL and 1 GARGANEY.
Digiscoped record shot of greenshank © Adam Hartley
Yesterday's rain meant that the floods had been topped up again and a lot of the mud has now been re-covered. Along the north shore between the north cove and Burgess creek were a GREENSHANK and a REDSHANK. At north cove were two COMMON SANDPIPERS with another along the north shore. Along the north or south shore lines were a total of 9 RINGED PLOVER and at least 5 DUNLIN. There were 5 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS (islandica) in Burgess channel. 5 SNIPE were seen hidden in the flooded grass though there could well have been more. There was a single juvenile LITTLE RINGED PLOVER down in the south tail.
From Blog Comment:
Lunchtime: 5 Black-tailed Godwits still, 7 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 4 TEAL and 1 GARGANEY.
Digiscoped record shot of greenshank © Adam Hartley
2:09 PM, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 . Publisehd by Anonymous
5 Black-tailed Godwits still, 7 Ringed Plover, 5 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpiper, 4 Teal and 1 Garganey. Fraser Cottington - fraser1947@hotmail.com