Today was one of those incredible moments that birding your local patch can throw at you. An incredible 8 White-rumped Sandpiper were on the north shore from around 4pm. When I first laid eyes on them, I couldn't quiet believe what I was seeing. They were present until 5.30pm when they flew off towards the dam and wasn't seen again. This just falls short of a British record of 11 on South Uist on the 19th October 2019. If I hadn't decided to go back in the West End Hide to count the Wigeon, I would never have found them. Also present today were 3 Dunlin and 3 Ringed Plover. 335 Shoveler and 166 Wigeon were counted. A Stonechat was off the west track. 3 Great Egret were present. 8 Swallow flew south at midday, 3 Chiffchaff were noted. 133 Linnet were at the west end. A couple of videos of the Sandpipers can be viewed here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOQ7JsjErXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chhOiy0YV_w
Just wanted to check the reference to 6 WrS at Staines? - on the London BC site there are only 2 records of singles.
ReplyDeleteI was just quoting what someone had commented on my Twitter feed. It may or may not be wrong? Apologies if wrong.
ReplyDeleteAppears that there is no such record on the data base so I've been misinformed. I will appropriately delete.
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