Waders!

A very nice couple of hours this morning at the ARC, viewing from Hanson hide and another hour this evening saw a Temminck's Stint, Little Stint, 2 Curlew Sandpipers, 2 Wood Sandpipers, 3 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, 17 Ruff, 4 LRPs, 4 Ringed Plover, 5 Golden Plover over, 23 Dunlin, 7 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, c280 Curlew over, a Whimbrel, c200 Lapwing, 3 Common Snipe, a Water Rail, a Merlin, 2 Marsh Harriers, a Garganey, 2 Red-crested Pochards, a Black Tern, Cetti's Reed and Sedge Warblers, 2+ Yellow Wagtails, 100s of Sand Martins and more.

 As usual most birds are to far for any good images. 2 Curlew Sandpipers with Dunlin from Hanson

 This afternoon a quick visit to Scotney where the 2 Spoonbills had moved to the causeway, the feral Barnacle Goose flock is back, I estimated that there were c1500 Greylag Geese there with c150 Canada Geese.
An hour at the fishing boats this afternoon with MH was very poor:
Great-crested Grebe: 5 around
Gannet: 8E    8W
Cormorant: 6 around
Oystercatcher: 1E
Sanderling: 1E
Kittiwake: 2E
Sandwich Tern: 20E
Common Tern: 8E
Harbour Porpoise: 4+

 This evening from Firth hide 2 Garganey and 6 Common Sandpipers were the highlights.

This mornings moth trap highlight was this Peach Blossom.