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OnlyWaders
Blog dealing with my observations ,experiences and much more with this bird group.
Three Dunlins
Wednesday 17 May 2023
My local patch, a reservoir to preserve......
Sunday 8 May 2022
Some waders arriving.....
Saturday 9 April 2022
A nice kentish plover in my local patch!!
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Now a few shoots that I could manage yesterday with this real special bird in my lp.
Its a very rare migrant on the shores of Zolina reservoir so each time I see one is always a celebration.
I also saw one small ringed plover , one dunlin a six redshanks.....
Kentish plover
A nice male adquiring a full breeding plumage.
Charadrius alexandrinus.
Its a LP rarity.
The nineth record and five years since the last sighting.
Sharing the muds with a dunlin.
Obvious differences between the "cousins" in good conditions..
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Two late november records..
Golden plovers. Asturias. (20nov21).
A really nice group that was feeding in a recently harvested crop field.
Monday 4 October 2021
A second for Spain...
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Last week I had the opportunity to twitch a real treat that was discovered a few days before (Alberto Benito&others...) , it was a short billed dowitcher, the second record for Spain and first for Castilla y Leon province. Is a very scarce vagrant in Europe with much less records than its closer relative, the long billed.
The lonely bird shared the muddyflats of a damm (Embalse Aguilar de Campoo) with other birds like some little stints, various dunlins and a dozen of ringed plovers.
Linmodromus griseus.
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Panoramic landscape views.
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Feeding action.
During tbe time I spent in the spot, the bird showed more and more confident and gave me good chances for quality observations and pictures for the card.
The shorebird keep feeding frantically continuosly, with very fast head movements and short runs. From time to time, digged the whole long beak in its probbing manouvers and even the entire head!
As far as I know it remained in the same place and who knows for how long will stay.....
Tuesday 27 July 2021
One morning in the Ebro delta......
A solitary common redshank. Always wary....
Greenshank on the look out.
This was the only one I saw......
Kentish plover.
A real rarity in my "l.p" but here always presents in "good" numbers.
Friday 19 March 2021
A pair of northern jewels
I had the chance of twitching a very rare bird in my LP, Zolina reservoir, the last month of december, thanks to my mate Raul that had the luck of discovering a pair of grey Phalaropus in the northern shore.
This is a very rare record in the county and the last time that they were seen here was twelve years ago due to a northern gale that brought many marine birds inland.
I managed to get a few decent pics with one of the birds that behaved quite tamely with my presence (I kept always a security distance to not disturb the shorebird).
"Curiously" they didn't get on well with each other, and in three ocassions one of the birds mobbed the other frantically.
Swimming between the weeds |