Saturday, 8 August 2009

Spurn Point - Long-toed Stint?

We decided to visit a new RSPB reserve down in the wash today, Frampton Marsh but wouldn't you know it the bird pager went off just as we were setting off - a possible Long-toed Stint had been seen last night and again first thing this morning at Patrington Haven so off we went.  By the time we reached Patrington we had missed high tide so we carried on to Spurn Point  with plans to go back to Patrington at the next high tide at about 7.30.  So we decided to look for the juvenile Marsh Warbler down Beacon Lane which had been seen yesterday - after about an hour of looking we finally found the bird, surprisingly this was a lifer for me so I was happy.  To cut a long story short we saw the stint or a stint which turned out to be a Little Stint not a Long-toed Stint and to add insult to injury for Wayne at the same time it came through on the pager that a Collared Pratincole was at Frampton Marsh a new Lincolnshire 'tick' for us.  We had a lovely day at Spurn though with thousands of waders and dozens of terns and 3 Emperor Dragonflies - I wonder though where we will be tomorrow.

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