Due to a cancelled hospital appointment for my father in law I found myself with a free day on Thursday so invited Jim to join me on a day out at Frampton. Dad was in Rome looking at old buildings and paintings so it was just the two of us on this run.
We arrived to an empty car park and walked along the footpath towards the reedbed hide where we'd set up scopes and scanned all the birds on the flood. Great White Egret was encountered again and it seems we can't go out now without bumping into one of these. A Kingfisher visited the sand bank and fished and then we started the wader count. Lesser Yellowlegs and White Rumped Sandpiper were the highlights and added to an impressive list that included twenty Curlew Sandpipers and ten Little Stints along with Greenshank, Turnstone, Dunlin, Redshank, Avocet, Ringed Plover, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Blackwits, Snipe, Curlew and Lapwing for a sixteen wader day. Eleven Whooper Swans left the flood early to feed in the farm fields to the south and we had seven Bearded Tits high over the reed bed hide to finish a very enjoyable morning birding this wonderful reserve.
Year list now 223 (15 short of my worst ever year count of 238)
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| Curlew Sandpiper |
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| Great Egret |
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| Great Egret |
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| Kingfisher |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs |
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| Little Stint |
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| Ruff |
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| White-rumped Sandpiper with Little Stints |
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| White-rumped Sandpiper |
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