Wednesday 25 September 2013

Knot again

In grey, damp, muggy conditions late morning, a brief look at Passage House just after high tide produced little other than two Sandwich Terns in with the Black-headed Gulls. I then went to Flow Point and 'scoped the waders on the far side, and picked up a Knot distantly amongst the Oystercatchers and Curlews; presumably the same bird seen on the Salty on the 15th. As the tide dropped I moved round the Point to try to get a closer view of the Knot, but the waders were already dispersing to feed and I was unable to relocate it. A Turnstone (below) proved much more obliging, and a juvenile Sandwich Tern was making a racket trying to persuade its parent to bring food. A further half dozen Sarnies were sat on buoys in the estuary alongside two Shags - uncommon this side of the Shaldon bridge.

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