Robin and I were watching from Passage House car park early evening, lamenting the relative lack of scarce waders this autumn, when a juvenile
Little Stint appeared on the spit; the first patch record since 2015. It proceeded to show well and allowed Laurie and Kev to catch up with it, though none of us had working cameras to hand so the phone-scoped record shots below are the best that could be mustered. Also present were a first-winter
Mediterranean Gull, at least one
White Wagtail, 15+
Greenshanks, two
Common Sandpipers, four
Wigeon and singles of
Water Rail,
Kingfisher,
Lapwing and
Snipe.
Size comparison with Common Sandpiper
Earlier in the afternoon two
Rock Pipits were back on Flow Point and one
Sandwich Tern was still in the estuary. Nearby the footpath to Luxton's Steps produced two
Kestrels, two
Chiffchaffs, two
Goldcrests and three
Bullfinches, and a
Little Grebe was on the pond.
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