Monday 29 August 2011

Curlew Sandpipers - Newport

3 Juvenile Curlew Sandpipers this evening on the rising tide, may be new birds by their behaviour, favouring the waters edge under the sand dunes, but flighty.
The main wader flock, c80 birds, inc, 4 Knot, 11 Sanderling, c40 Dunlin, c25 Ringed Plover. Also 1 Turnstone flying about and 1 Greenshank.