Yesterday, I was dropping Jayne off for our daughter's "hen do" in York, so I decided to drive on to Scaling Dam Reservoir on the North Yorkshire/Cleveland border to "twitch" my fourth lifer of the year: Buff-breasted Sandpiper (180th bird of the year and my 524th species worldwide).
To say that the bird was "distant" is to put it politely, but I did manage to get a few 'scope views, as it fed, on the far side of the reservoir from the bird hide. Here are a couple of very, very heavily cropped photos! This is what one should look like!
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (with a Little Ringed Plover)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper!
Also present on site were: Greylag, Canada and a single (feral) Barnacle Goose; Dunlin, Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover and 2 Greenshank; Black-headed, Herring and Common Gulls and Pied Wagtails.
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