Wednesday, April 10, 2013
On a late-afternoon walk I got out onto the common from the wetlands and walked over the dried-up flood towards the Roundmoor Ditch. Seeing waderish shapes striding about on the Eton Wick flood I looked through my bins to see two redshanks - and a black-tailed godwit. This was a delicious surprise.
Ten snipe were feeding on the flood. As I walked back along the Jubilee River, I heard a nasal sort of chorus and a bunch of snipe rose from East Marsh; there were probably 20 to 30 birds. By the time I'd wrestled the camera out of the rucksack they had all disappeared.
// posted by Christine @ 1:33 PM 
