I made a visit to Hampton finding the purple sandpipers feeding on the steps as they prepared to sit out the high tide... hardly anything else.
A turnstone (just a few) was the hardly anything else plus one redshank.....I've never seen more than one this winter.
Hopefully these two will make for next winter, there used to be four....presumably these are the same returning birds...as they come to their end will that be the last seen here?
Moved onto Seasalter finding the kingfisher again......onto the beach taking a few shots as the tide went out....redshank.
As the tide went out a bit of stealth got me close to a few of oystercatchers coming into feed.
On the way back to the car this house sparrow posed for a shot before I went on to Oare after hearing about a Bewick swan on the East flood.
The Bewick was half way out on the flood and after twenty minutes it took off flying towards Sheppey.
Sat. 19th Jan.
Another cold morning at Seasalter.
High tide at Seasalter pushed the dunlin flock up onto the outfall for a short period......there's always someone who wants to walk out on it.
Grey plovers are a more or less a guaranteed sight at high tide when they roost on the breakwater posts near the wall.
As the tide dropped c.200 bar-tailed godwits dropped in to feed just in front of the Sportsman PH along with the knot and dunlin etc..
20th Jan
Another visit to SS., I was still experimenting using my 1.4 converter but the results were not very good, it may have been atmospherics giving a sort of 'noisy' picture so I think I will stick to 'just the lens' on its own.
Dunlin with converter
Sanderling with converter
A great show of waders, mainly dunlin on the 'island'.
The oystercatchers kept company with the herring gulls.
The dunlin were up and down flying a couple circuits when disturbed.
The kingfisher on her usual perch at the pumping station.
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