A drive to Rainton Meadows for the Temminck’s Stint which is a lifer for me. And if that wasn’t enough a Wood Sandpiper and Little Ringed Plover showed very well just outside the hide. All in all a canny morning out.
A lifer for me Temminck’s Stint.
Wood Sandpiper.
Little Ringed Plover with four eggs.
It was replaced on the nest by its mate and landed
right outside the hide.
Male Shoveler.
Male Shelduck.
A pair of Oystercatcher with four chicks.
First, thanks to CB for finding me in another hide then putting me onto my second ever Jack Snipe. It was then seen by a few other delighted birders. It proved to be a cracking morning out with some great birds seen including Iceland Gull and Russian White-fronted Goose among other things.
Jack Snipe.
Iceland Gull.
A couple of Lesser Black-backed Gulls took exception
to it being there
And chased it off.
It soon came back.
Russian White-fronted Goose.
I saw only one Avocet while I was there.
However, I could not count the number of Shelduck,
they were everywhere.
Those Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Black-headed Gulls displaying.
Lapwing.
Tufted Duck.
…I’d rear the report on BirdGuides correctly I would have seen the Russian White-fronted Geese at Lamesley but I didn’t so I didn’t. Here is what I did see in the half hour I was there (not a lot).
Shelduck.
Male Gadwall coming in to land.
Female Gadwall in flight.
Male Gadwall in flight.
A pair of Gadwall coming in to land.
Female Gadwall.
Male Gadwall.
A very distant Kestrel.
And a short sequence of the same very distant Kestrel
coming in to land on a post.
