Thursday 9th October: Snipe
This morning an extremely misty start lead to a delayed trip down to the Meadow but once the sun burnt it off it was another glorious day with sunny blue skies and no wind.
It was pretty much a case of business as usual: 30+ BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still present, c50 GOLDEN PLOVER, the 4 or 5 RUFF still around and plenty of SNIPE showing well. In fact I decided actually to count the snipe and was amazed to come up with a total of 92 just in the flooded patch north of the Burgess Field gate. A few meadow pipits in the grass to the north of the foods, a flyover skylark and plenty of finches around.
Lunch time update: the golden plover flock has now grown to c. 300 birds. 8 further skylarks flew over. A STONECHAT in Burgess Field NR and lots of mipits around.
Yet another godwit photo but they are very photogenic and often come obligingly close © Adam Hartley
Here's another video of a godwit and 2 ruff feeding at very close range so it is of reasonable quality. To view in high quality mode click here and select "watch in high quality".
It was pretty much a case of business as usual: 30+ BLACK-TAILED GODWITS still present, c50 GOLDEN PLOVER, the 4 or 5 RUFF still around and plenty of SNIPE showing well. In fact I decided actually to count the snipe and was amazed to come up with a total of 92 just in the flooded patch north of the Burgess Field gate. A few meadow pipits in the grass to the north of the foods, a flyover skylark and plenty of finches around.
Lunch time update: the golden plover flock has now grown to c. 300 birds. 8 further skylarks flew over. A STONECHAT in Burgess Field NR and lots of mipits around.
Yet another godwit photo but they are very photogenic and often come obligingly close © Adam HartleyHere's another video of a godwit and 2 ruff feeding at very close range so it is of reasonable quality. To view in high quality mode click here and select "watch in high quality".