Some birds in August

Hi there!

The last week of august has been quite dull in my local patch with not to many waders around.

As usual various common sandpipers,by far the most numerous wader around with the ocasional visit of ringed plovers in very scarce numbers.

(*) all pics with kowa 88 + smartphone hand held (a good way of staying far from migratory birds).

Ringed plover.

Ringed plover.

Ringed plover (young)

Those three were together in the same shore area.

And now I post some pics of a very nice afternoon I had in Laguna de Dos Reinos

I could tick ten species of waders,my record in this lake;

Green sandpiper 4

Avocet 1

Lapwing 1

Black tailed godwit 1

BWS 4

Dunlin 1

Curlew sandpiper 2

Wood sandpiper 1

Common snipe 6

Little ringed plover 1

Not very high numbers really but good variety.

BWS feeding surrounded by more than a hundred mallards.

 Avocet.

A pair of curlew sandpipers (young) in the distance.

Avocet probing in the swallow waters of  Dos Reinos.

14 aug 2020. Zolina reservoir.

Those green sanpipers were resting together in a mudflat area.

When they are in postnuptial migration they are much more sociable than in spring.

BWS

Here we see a nice group.