Early morning around Fowlmere. Quite cold and breezy, never good there, so wasn’t expecting much. But from the hide I quickly noticed a Wood Sandpiper. Or was it?! Views were poor, looking directly into the sun, and the bird was distant (I had no scope). Plumage wise it was obviously a Wood Sand’, but it looked short-legged and dumpy; most unlike a Wood Sand’. The bird didn’t move for fifteen minutes and I went through all the other possibilities (there were none really) but it was still obviously a Wood Sand’. Just one in an odd posture. Eventually it walked a bit closer, and looked more like a Wood Sandpiper. At that point I put news out to people, but it immediately flew off over the Mere hide heading West and calling as it went.
I returned briefly to the hide after heavy rain to see if anything had come in, but apart from a good number of hirrundines (including Sand Martins), there wasn’t anything to see.
Fowlmere29 April 2015 07:22 - 09:15
Overcast 11C 13SW
Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Greater Canada Goose, Teal, Mallard, Pheasant, Buzzard, Moorhen, Coot, Lapwing, Wood Sandpiper, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Turtle Dove,
Fowlmere
29 April 2015 18:16 - 18:55
Sunny after heavy rain 13C 9W
Greylag Goose, Greater Canada Goose, Teal, Mallard, Sparrowhawk, Moorhen, Coot, Lapwing, Woodpigeon,
