Bumped into Jacko late this afternoon who'd had a look from Nel's hide and mentioned seeing nothing more than a couple of Ruff. I thought it worth having a look anyway, so I did. Things intially looked fairly uneventful with four Ruff (two males, two juvs), a juv Dunlin, a Ringed Plover and about 20 Snipe on show. While inspecting the Ruff a small yellow-legged wader ambled along, which on closer inspection turned out to be a Pectroal Sandpiper - bonus! I texted several locals and stuck the news on the Ribble Estaury Nature facebook page and Tony Baker, Playful Pete, Jacko, Neill Hunt, Colin Bushell and Jonny Platt all turned up and had views of the birds (I'm sure Neill and Colin will have got better pics than my poor effort below - have a look on Colin's excellent Ribble to Amazon blog). A nice end to a sunny Marshside afternoon.
Pectoral Sandpiper, Rimmer's marsh, RSPB Marshside. 10/08/12.
Barry McCarthy is hoping the pec sticks around for the bioblitz event that's happening at Marshside this weekend. I hope so too, the more people that come and enjoy Marshside's wildlife the better.
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