Wednesday, 18 April 2018

more shorebirds...

The afternoon count included around 100 whimbrels, 3 red capped plovers, 3 grey-tailed tattlers, 3 ruddy turnstones in handsome breeding plumage, 1 lonely bar-tailed godwit and 1 lonely great knot, neither had much colouring, maybe juveniles,  and a mystery sandpiper with not much colour (common?).  All having a good feed in the mud!

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