Thursday, August 14, 2014
We took the scenic route to Tesco this morning, along the Ullapool River and out onto the spit. The tide was in, and there were hoodies and oystercatchers on the stony beach. In the grassy area there were two redshanks and a dunlin.
Greger had just pointed out a group of eleven goosanders on the sea when a flock of waders came flying in. There were at least twenty-three turnstone and at least fifteen ringed plover.
After lunch I returned to the river spit. The tide by now was quite far out, the waders were all distant, and I had only bins; but the hugely-cropped pictures show this to be a juvenile little stint.
// posted by Christine @ 3:06 PM 
