Black-tailed Godwit

My intention yesterday evening was to go to Tetworth this morning to carry out my WeBS count. I'm rather pleased with my decision at dawn this morning to text my friendly gamekeeper and postpone until tomorrow, on account of the poor weather.

Instead, I stayed closer to home and again visited my closest 'wetland' at Myers Farm. I was kind of expecting something to be there, and my mind was full of Wood Sandpipers and Spotted Redshanks as I made my way there. Predictably, neither was, but a familiar call and a leggy wader on the mud had me adding yet another wader to this surprisingly productive site's list - a juvenile islandica-type Black-tailed Godwit.

In a way, it's a shame the site is so out of the way, but on the other hand, I'm pleased to have it all to myself.

However, I really do think that I should buy myself a smartphone with a reasonably proficient camera.

DOM

Carbon free Godwit

Hard times for me with not much time for birding and still no migrants. Only managed Redshank today... Any road up, what a nice cycle ride today making it to what was one of the best bits of wader habo on the bypass (in 2010). Well, if it stays wet, it's going to be the best bit of wader habo on the bypass this year too.

'Wit

The self-found list came to a bit of a halt towards the end of the month until I popped in to Derek's on 27th and found a Black-tailed Godwit feeding busily in the shallows.