Hi there.
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.....
