The Newport Water Pipit was showing well this morning on the grassy island on the N side upstream from the bridge.
I must have scoped hundreds of Oystercatchers at Newport over the years, whilst looking for ringed gulls (or perhaps it's just the same sedentary dozen !). Sometimes they have BTO metal rings, but I've never seen a Darvic ringed bird. The same is true of Curlews. So interested to read that one of the Gann Oystercatchers got as far as Lundy.
