After missing out on all the Beer Head action yesterday morning I popped up there for a hour or so this morning. I was very glad I did too, adding a whole four birds to my patch photo-year-list. It could have been more but I dipped the
Tree Pipits and
Garden Warblers again. Still I'm not complaining, I had a thoroughly enjoyable time, I really must try and get up there more often! After this I had to go and do a few chores I'd been putting off...I wish I'd put them off a bit longer and gone straight down to Black Hole Marsh though. If I had I'd have seen a
Black Tern, but by the time I received the news it had departed on it's merry way. I did visit later in the day when news came out of an unprecedented arrival of
Curlew Sandpipers (10 no less!) and more importantly to photo-year-listers a
Turnstone!
The 'Wheatear Fence' was living up to its name, but with the addition of a few Yellow Wagtails.
No. 120 Yellow Wagatail
No. 121 Whinchat
No.122 Meadow Pipit
No.123 Swallow
It had to be done.
And the real surprise of the morning was this...
... Golden Plover.
No.124 Turnstone
It would have been rude not to photograph at least one of the gang of Curlew Sandpipers, this lovely juvenile came closest.
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