Still nice and calm but
unfortunately it rained pretty much all day with only a few windows in the
weather to make the most of; with the rain and the light wind in the NE it was
predictably waders that were the main focus with my two jaunts out in the rain
producing some good totals. A look in
Sevika late morning saw 17 Bar-tailed Godwits (I can’t remember seeing such a
big flock here before), 8 Green Sandpipers, 5 Greenshank, 5 Wood Sandpipers, 6
Common Sandpipers, 2 Ruff, 21 Snipe (small flocks appearing from nowhere!), 15
Redshank, 3 Dunlin and yesterday’s Curlew Sandpiper still with a Bonxie
alarming everything over Steinodden until the rain drove me back indoors!
I completed the coast later in the afternoon where
there was another good concentration of birds in Verevågen which included my
overdue first Spotted Redshank of
the year, 27 Redshank, 8 Greenshank, 7 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers,
10 Dunlin, 4 Curlew and another Curlew Sandpiper.
I didn't take any pictures today (for a variety of reasons!) so here's a Blue Rock Thrush from Gibraltar a couple of years ago
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