A little trip to the coast today, lovely clear sky, the tide on the way out.
Parking at Two Tree Island there were teal roosting on the edge of Leigh Creek. Walking down to the old town there were plenty of redshank as well as the usual collection of gulls and corvids.
The tide was receeeding across the flats with a lot of waders following it. Redshank obviously as well as grey plover and turnstone. I only had the lightweight spotting scope so I couldn't see the tideline in detail but it is a good guess that the little black dots were dunlin.
Brent geese numbers weren't high but there were plenty to be seen and heard. There was also a curlew somewhere out on the flats, audible but I didn't get a view,
I can't get use to seeing egrets at Leigh but there were several around. Little egrets I think but I will have to read up on their id, all of my field guides were published when they were still very rare vagrants.
Parking at Two Tree Island there were teal roosting on the edge of Leigh Creek. Walking down to the old town there were plenty of redshank as well as the usual collection of gulls and corvids.
The tide was receeeding across the flats with a lot of waders following it. Redshank obviously as well as grey plover and turnstone. I only had the lightweight spotting scope so I couldn't see the tideline in detail but it is a good guess that the little black dots were dunlin.
Brent geese numbers weren't high but there were plenty to be seen and heard. There was also a curlew somewhere out on the flats, audible but I didn't get a view,
I can't get use to seeing egrets at Leigh but there were several around. Little egrets I think but I will have to read up on their id, all of my field guides were published when they were still very rare vagrants.
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