Wood Sandpipers were present at several locations in Norfolk earlier in the week ... starting with one viewed from across the county border in Suffolk at the lovely Lakenheath reserve ... it was on the Little Ouse Washlands and was quite a testing view at long range in very murky light ...
Further birds were again distantly on the River Glaven at Cley and also at Stiffkey Fen ... the jewel though was one at the interesting North Point Pools, Wells ... this bird showed well as it fed energetically before giving a nice fly over while calling characteristically ...
... this species is generally recorded from late April until early June and then from late July until mid September ... much scarcer in Cumbria, it was interesting to see one at Wedholme Flow on the atypical date of 16th June ...
... two juvenile Little Ringed Plovers also showed nicely at North Point Pools ...
... thinking of waders back in July and the first-summer Greater Sand Plover at Tyningham Bay was a very definite highlight on the first day that travel of distance was permitted in Scotland ...
... a great bird to finally catch up with in the British Isles ... looking strikingly pale in this setting and not as large as I expected when seen alongside Ringed Plovers ...
... then a couple of weeks later the Long-billed Dowitcher flew in to Port Carlisle, first at the water's edge and then among rock pools to give nice views of this striking adult ...
