My two best birds today were both sporting striking supercilia.
First was a gorgeous wood sandpiper, which was stalking the pools of the parish. I managed to get a couple of shots by poking my lens through the branches of a hedge.
Jon 'Canuck' Carter had 5 or 6 wood sands down Aldcliffe over the years, but this was only my second in 12 years. I phoned it in to RBA to be told that it had already been logged- three hours earlier. Old news!
Anyhoo, the second set of eyebrows was on a pleasant whinchat which was hunting the juncus by Freeman's Pools. Two kingfishers there also.
Other highlights included a merlin, three green sandpipers, thirty common snipe and the continued plague of juv willow warblers.
Dan
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Bob on! Can't beat getting wood down at Aldcliffe eh?
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