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Two Little Stints

Posted by on June 9, 2009 2:50 PM | 

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Zipped down to Marshside this morning to check out the reports of two Temminck's Stints, and tried my luck at Polly's Pool, the Sandplant Lagoon, Junction Pool and Nels.
Plenty of Dunlin, Blackwits, Avocets, Redshank, Blackwits, Ringed Plover etc about, but no sign of the Temminck's.
Met Neill and he'd had no joy either.
Best I could come up with was two fine Little Stints feeding amongst the Dunlin from Nels, both in russety summer plumage.

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Busy little critters, they scurried about the shallows feeding like crazy.
The local Lapwings were a bit more laid back, wading through the gloop for morsels to pick off.

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More young Avocets out now too, although plenty of adults are still sitting in front of Nels.
This one was sheltering its chicks - only the excessive number of legs for one bird gave them away.

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Lots of exposed mud now for waders - Polly's and Nels are looking mighty tasty.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies...

Comments (6)

Neill Hunt wrote...

One female Wheatear around Sandplant this morning.

Posted by: Neill Hunt  | June 9, 2009 3:07 PM

baz.e wrote...

Yellow Wagtail from Curlew Lane today tuesday

Posted by: baz.e  | June 9, 2009 10:45 PM

Robin French wrote...

John, I have just bought a copy of Wild Merseyside at WH Smith in Liscard. I did not know that it was on sale there. Your marketing skills are not very good!!! Let people know where the book is available from. I thought that you could only buy it at wild life sites!! Anyway, re the white (leucistic) moorhens in Central Park, the chick is still on the main lake with its black siblings. One of the white ones from last year? Is on the smaller pond, or the duck pond as it was called in my much younger days!! Hope this may be of a bit of interest, sorry for the ramble. Robin.

Posted by: Robin French  | June 10, 2009 12:52 AM

John wrote...

Thanks for buying the book Robin. It's available from all good bookshops, and the usual online stores (Amazon, Merseyshop etc etc).

Posted by: John  | June 10, 2009 8:55 AM

Dave Almond wrote...

yesterday I saw a Dipper for the very first time..
In the stream under the waterfall at Bodnant gardens, near Conway, North Wales.
I was amazed at how it could walk upstream underwater!

Posted by: Dave Almond  | June 10, 2009 9:39 AM

ron jackson wrote...

The Avocet pic at the entrance to Sandgrounder's Hide maybe needs to be replaced with one of a Temminck's Stint, provided the bird has a scaly grey mantle, greenish legs etc etc

Ron

Posted by: ron jackson  | June 14, 2009 8:30 AM

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