A grand total of 1 Dunlin and 2 Red-necked Stint on the harsh afternoon light locally on Monday…
It was good light later for the Green Pigeons but they were all scared off by this juvenile Peregrine…
A brief Monday outing
Category: Shorebirds
Last of the Sunday waders
1 Dunlin was with a flock of 30 or so Red-necked Stints…
More Sunday waders
3 more common species from last Sunday; all taken with the 600 f/11 (like almost all my photos recently)…
A sunny Sunday up north
A sunny Sunday with some common waders; soon they’ll be gone.
A barwit
Both species of godwit around on Sunday…
Some Mongolians
There were 6 of these on one beach…
A ‘new’ beach…
A small beach which we have mostly ignored over the years had several waders…including 15 or so very jumpy Eastern Curlew…
Some more early September waders
About a dozen or so wader species yesterday…
And several of these around too…
A sunny Sunday…
A hot, clear (but not humid!) Sunday saw quite a few waders around…
A Dunlin
Pretty quiet on the beach just outside town today; a lone Red-necked Stint and a lone Dunlin being the only waders…
The big one
The largest of the common passage waders. There were 6 of them. This is a juvenile (short bill).
And this is an adult…?
A winter returnee among August staples
The Osprey and Red-necked Stint are both August staples…
I got my first Black-headed Gull of the ‘season’ as well as a couple of Black Scoter in one of the ports…
