Whimbrel

 A few Whimbrel starting to push through into the northerly winds

Whimbrel and Humber mud

 

Whimbrel

 my best ever images of a species I have always found difficult to get close to -- the Auto focus on the R6 certainly stuck on this once it found it 

some further R6 images

 getting a better feel for this camera and how it works - the Yellow Wagtail was through a reed fringe needing manual focus initially; the harriers are pretty big crops but all 12 in a sequence were in focus but light and contrast are clearly key factors - nice to get rid of the glaring overhead sun and heat haze! 

The Northern Wheatear looks like a Greenland

Whimbrel

a species that always seems very skittish around me at least! in contrast to Hudsonian Whimbrels in Canada that I have had brilliant close encounters with

flying Whimbrels

good numbers in the Rimac - Sea View area today

Whimbrel and Gropper

one of the singing Grasshopper Warblers at Rimac, get the bubble gum pink legs and feet, and part of the total of 74 Whimbrel we had there, 19 on the foreshore and 53 on the pasture fields just inland -- the largest spring gathering of Whimbrel I have seen for many years -- and we managed to miss the eagle!

peripheral wader action from North Cave

Knot and Whimbrel

Whimbrel

2 juveniles today with the godwits -- heat haze was appalling this morning --