Yes indeedy, the beach at Long Strand has been producing the goods the last couple of days. Friday's dog walk started well with a brace of turnstones on the rocks, while just offshore, a cracking adult little gull was in amongst the black-heads - my first here since 2022.
I had to go home to get the camera, and then of course forgot to do anything other than press the button when it flew by...
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| A little gull, yesterday |
Fast forward to saturday and news of sanderlings on the beach dragged me back down there - sure enough, 8 sanderlings were duly added to the burgeoning year list. A scan of the gulls and a surprise as there was a 1st winter little gull flying along the beach - unfortunately it didnt hang around for a photo.
The increasing SE wind with persistant rain all Saturday afternoon and evening boded well for a plethora of migs on sunday. Unfortunately it didnt really pan out that way, with only 1 chiffchaff, 2 whitethroats (which could be breeders), and fortunately a nice, tho distant pied flycatcher, thusly...
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| a pied flycatcher, |
Onwards...
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