Monday 3 July 2017

Some early passage waders on the Solway ... Whimbrel & colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit

On the falling tide today four Whimbrel called as they flew in and fed at Port Carlisle ...


... associating sometimes with Redshank ...


... and also with several of the Common Sandpipers present ...


... one came in high ...



... before joining the others ...

... a Curlew came by uttering the characteristic three-note call of migrating birds ...



There was plenty of water in Campfield Scrape ... obviously benefitting the grassland behind where ten Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits were variously feeding and roosting ... one was colour-ringed ( details hopefully to follow ) ...



... among the Lapwings a single juvenile with its subtly scaled mantle and delicately patterned buff face pattern ...





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