Tuesday 6 August 2019

High Tide Waders

Early August is a good time to catch up with waders at high-tide.  Knot, Black-tailed Godwits, Bar-tailed Godwits, Dunlin, Golden Plovers and Ruff are especially colourful at the moment.    A lot more colourful than they will be in the Autumn anyway.  Meanwhile, some waders like Wood Sandpipers, Whimbrel and Little Stints may have even gone when classes resume in September.  There is even the chance of an extremely rare bird turning up, like a White-Rumped Sandpiper at Kilnsea Wetlands.  It is best to turn up before the high tide, and make yourself comfortable, and wait for more waders to arrive.  If the high tide is relatively early in the morning, you may get the places to yourself, but the later in the day the high tide occurs, the more likely that the venues will be busy.
Greenshank

 Wood Sandpiper 
 Little Stint
 Little Stints
 Immature Yellow Wagtail
 House Martin
House Martin 
 Sparrowhawk
 Sparrowhawk
 Painted Lady
 Common Blue
 Wall
 Wall
 Ruff
 ditto
 ditto
 Ruff
 Little Stint
 immature LRP?
 Common Sandpiper
 Common Sandpiper
 Common Sandpiper
 Wood Sandpiper
 Knot
 Black-tailed Godwit [2nd from right]
 Wood Sandpiper
 Wood Sandpiper
 Knot
[Red] Knot 
 Gatekeeper
 Wall
 Wall
 Golden Plover
 ditto

 Dunlin
 Dunlin & immature LRP?
 Golden Plover [Dunlin & Ringed Plover]
 Golden Plover [Dunlin & Ringed Plover]
 Spoonbill (and Redshank)
White-Rumped Sandpiper [left] and Dunlin  

White-Rumped Sandpiper [left] and Dunlin 
 Whimbrel
 Ringed Plover
 Knot & Redshank
 ditto
 ditto
 ditto
 Wall
Back at home one of the local Buzzards now seems a little easier to approach.
Buzzard

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