I went out to Bertha’s beach this morning after taking my Uncle to the airport for his flight to the UK. My main aim was to look for Sanderling, but no sign of any on the sand at the end of East Cove, I then moved around to the next beach where I could see there were thousands of waders on the washed up kelp. I parked up and waited for the flock to move past the car, I estimated that there were 3000+ White Rumped Sandpipers, 700+ Two Banded Plovers & 150+ Rufous Chested Dotterels on the two beaches.

Juvenile Two Banded Plover

Female Two Banded Plover

White Rumped Sandpiper