WADER FEST ON HAYLE ESTUARY.

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Well here we are again, and firstly apologies to everyone for the lack of posts and comments but I just felt I needed a blogging break and very few photo opportunities have occurred.

So what better to get the juices running again when a nice American visitor namely a Baird's Sandpiper was reported on the Hayle Estuary, along with Curlew Sandpiper and Little Stint So yesterday morning met up with Ashley and set off to locate the bird. Already a couple of local birders said they had seen it on the Estuary at the back of Carnsew Basin, arriving at the spot it was not to be seen but then managed to scope it further along the shore with a group of Sanderling.We went over and got set up for some pics and off they went towards the mouth of the Hayle River, we then spent around half an hour searching for it with no sign , so decided to walk back to the car.

After about ten minutes walking a wader dropped onto the shoreline and looking through the bins we saw it was the Baird's, so we spent the next fifteen minutes taking photo's down to about 20ft until it flew off down the Estuary.

When we got back onto the road and just past the Tempest Factory we looked over the causeway wall and a whole group of waders including Little Stint and Curlew Sandpiper were feeding down to distances of 10ft.

So we spent quite a long time taking loads of images of this bonus, and it made a great end to a superb morning.

BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.



BAIRD'S SANDPIPER.



DUNLIN.



CURLEW SANDPIPER.

RINGED PLOVER.

SANDERLING.

LITTLE STINT.

LITTLE STINT.

TURNSTONE.

WHEATEAR.

You certainly know Autunm has arrived when you start seeing the iconic Wheatear

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