Waders

16th July 2009, Thursday

A good selection of waders were present on the new excavations at Castle Water this afternoon, a second pair of Little Ringed Plover with 3 chicks (pictured) headed the cast of 4 Ruff, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, Redshank with 2 chicks, 400 Lapwing and 7 Snipe. Six Garganey were also present.

One of three Little Ringed Plover chicks