Got a call from friends to say that they had just found a couple of Wilson's Phalaropes on a pond at Kelp Point.

A quick dash home to drop my son off and me and Trish headed off to Kelp Point. We arrived one and half hours later to get some very close views of this very rare bird in the Falklands, they are my first since I saw two on Pebble Island in 1997.

one of two Wilson's Phalaropes

Both Birds together

Also on the pond were the 2 pairs of Coscoroba Swans with there young and on the beach 9 Hudsonian Godwits. Kelp Point has played host to up to 50 Hudsonian Godwits during the last four summers.

Just starting to moult into Summer plumage

Underwing shot of Hudsonian Godwit