Alkborough Flats - a spectacular morning

We arrived down on the flats this morning at about 8.00 am and the light was superb - the weather was  cold but sunny and the birds were everywhere.  A very very rough guess put the numbers of birds at about 8000 - 5000 of these being Golden Plover, 2000 Lapwing and the rest Black Tailed Godwits, Teal, Dunlin and other duck.  The Plovers were so skittish they never landed for more than a minute a time and each time they got up the noise and patterns they made were quite spectacular - intermittently the "show" was interrupted with 4 Whooper Swans, 2 Kingfishers, 2 very obliging Snipe and a couple of Marsh Harriers.  After an hour the sun went, the wind picked up and the rain came down - you can see the change in light on the following photos - I think the Nikon may have been a good choice!