Tuesday 26th August: Garganey
This morning overcast but with little wind.
The long-staying GREENSHANK still present in the south channel and the RUFF in the Burgess channel, north of the creek. 3 RINGED PLOVER and 2 DUNLIN near stint corner, together with a YELLOW WAGTAIL. A LITTLE EGRET in the Burgess Field NR ditch before moving to the floods. Again a good selection of ducks including a GARGANEY, probably a male coming out of eclipse and starting to get its head markings again. A few SNIPE dotted about the place and the single COMMON SANDPIPER once more in the north cove.
Lunchtime update: a couple of kite flyers had scared all the birds away from the floods. However a rather nice WHEATEAR was right down by the southern tail.
A dunlin on the mud flats © Adam Hartley
The long-staying GREENSHANK still present in the south channel and the RUFF in the Burgess channel, north of the creek. 3 RINGED PLOVER and 2 DUNLIN near stint corner, together with a YELLOW WAGTAIL. A LITTLE EGRET in the Burgess Field NR ditch before moving to the floods. Again a good selection of ducks including a GARGANEY, probably a male coming out of eclipse and starting to get its head markings again. A few SNIPE dotted about the place and the single COMMON SANDPIPER once more in the north cove.
Lunchtime update: a couple of kite flyers had scared all the birds away from the floods. However a rather nice WHEATEAR was right down by the southern tail.
A dunlin on the mud flats © Adam Hartley