Sunday 8 May 2011

BLACK WINGED STILTS AT ST GOTHIAN

Started the day at Marazion this morning with Paul and Ashley and was almost blown away by the Southerly Gale that was coming in off the sea.
So the decision was made to head to St Gothian Sands where it hopefully would be calmer, Ashley and I arrived before Paul and started on to the reserve, as we got to the bridge area between the two fenced off pools I was looking at the left hand pool where two Shelduck were feeding when we heard Paul shouting and pointing " pick up your bins I can't believe it he said" or words to that effect.upon looking at the spit on the island on the right hand pool were 4 BLACK-WINGED STILTS so we ran around to get better views and spent the next hour putting the news out and taking 328 photo's as these are a rare bird and to get four was really something.
No I am not posting 328 images you will have to make do with the two below for now.


BLACK-WINGED STILT.














2 comments:

  1. Cracking find. Well done Monty.

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  2. Oh, to be in Cornwall with all the rarities there are ;)

    Well done Monty and well done to Paul!

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