Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Oare before the torrential rain

At the front of the East Flood there were a couple of Ringed Plover with the larger flocks of Golden Plover, resplendent in their black and gold.

Here is the best photo I got of the Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula. The rounded cheek pattern is clear, and I am fairly convinced of the stout bill, but rather less so of the orange as opposed to pink legs!


There was a Meadow Pipit, with very clearly pink legs, feeding on the mud close to the road:


A Little Stint (on the left) was feeding and chasing a Dunlin around a muddy spit fairly close in,


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