After a very kind text message from Tim,saying that a Stilt Sandpiper had been found at Lincolnshire's premier wader hotspot that is Frampton Marsh RSPB near to the South Lincolnshire town of Boston,i planned my visit while seeing out the last few hours of my shift at work.
As i arrived at home,every thing was ready for me and Trace and myself headed off.
The journey south wasn't too bad and it wasn't long before i was watching my first Stilt Sandpiper,albeit at long range as it associated with a flock of Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits.
Even at long range you could make out the barred underparts and long,blunt tipped bill and striking supercilium.Unfortunately the bird didn't show any closer,but at least i had seen this mega rare wader for the county.
Sunday 26th August
After seeing this cracking wader was still present and because of the views gained last Wednesday,i decided to make another visit and hopefully see the bird a lot closer on this occasion.
I arrived for first light,got the scope and pack up ready and headed for Reedbed Scrape.
To start with,there were no sightings of our target,but then some brief glimpses of the bird in amongst the Black-Wit flock and before long it was feeding out in the open at the front of the flock giving some lovely scope views,but still too far for my camera set up unfortunately.
It was really nice to study this smart wader which was most probably breeding on the Canadian arctic tundra a few weeks earlier,what an amazing journey to be blown off course on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
After spending a good couple of hours watching this beauty on and off.i decided to explore the rest of this fantastic reserve.
Other niceities observed during the visit included a juv. Wood Sandpiper,juv. Little-ringed Plover,Common and Green Sandpiper's,Merlin,juv.Marsh Harrier and 2 lovely juv.Whinchat,but the best of the lot were 3 precious Turtle Dove.It really is sad to that this,our most beautiful of Doves has declined so much,i really hope they make a recovery.
So after a succesfull visit again today and 78 species of bird in the notebook which included a very impressive 20 species of wader,i made my way back north through the wolds to north Linc's.
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| Spot The Stilt Sandpiper,extreme crop,the bird is in the centre of the photo infront of the Black-tailed Godwit,22.08.18. |
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| A Little Closer On 26.08.18. |
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| Stilt Sandpiper,Still Not Close Enough!. |
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| Heavy Crop Of A Cracking Bird. |
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| Living Up To Their Names!. |
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| Juvenile Whinchat,One Of Two Near The Farm Res. |
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