Wednesday 24th September: Dunlin, Ruff & 40 Godwits!
This morning overcast but calm.
The receding of the flood waters was confirmed this morning with the first small wader for some time in the form of a juvenile DUNLIN near the north cove. There were also now 4 RUFF between Burgess Creek and the north cove and at least 3 SNIPE. The two juvenile BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still present on the spit at the junction of the west and south shores. A single sleeping LITTLE EGRET down by the south tail. Plenty of ducks about. On the vis. mig. front a couple of MEADOW PIPITS over and a singing chiffchaff.
Lunch-time update: a lovely flock of 40 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS feeding on the north shore close to stint corner this lunch-time. Also quite a few meadow pipits on the ground to the north of the floods.
Off county news: no sign of the Calvert Ferruginous duck this morning.
The receding of the flood waters was confirmed this morning with the first small wader for some time in the form of a juvenile DUNLIN near the north cove. There were also now 4 RUFF between Burgess Creek and the north cove and at least 3 SNIPE. The two juvenile BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still present on the spit at the junction of the west and south shores. A single sleeping LITTLE EGRET down by the south tail. Plenty of ducks about. On the vis. mig. front a couple of MEADOW PIPITS over and a singing chiffchaff.
Lunch-time update: a lovely flock of 40 BLACK-TAILED GODWITS feeding on the north shore close to stint corner this lunch-time. Also quite a few meadow pipits on the ground to the north of the floods.
Off county news: no sign of the Calvert Ferruginous duck this morning.