Not a place for the faint hearted on an evening with druggies, quad biker drug dealers, fly tippers and fly tip scroungers to mention the good ones. Apart from that vans were arriving and people were carrying equipment up to the sacrifice stones for some sort of festival, not a good idea with the state of the moor. Anyway, at risk of getting the car trashed I parked at the northern end and ventured down to another world. Waders were calling everywhere and flying around from one shore to another.
The Sanderling flew from the nw corner to well down the east shore but no Barwit could be found.
I picked up 3 small waders in the scope flying low south to north over the water which were seen to be Turnstone getting ready to land but as they did so 2 Oystercatchers flew at them sending them back up high and away due north.
Thought Id better get up here tonight in case the weather forecast is correct and its wet and misty in the morning.
9 Redshank
11 Common Sandpipers
4 Dunlin
1 Sanderling
3 Turnstone
3 Curlew
4 Oystercatchers
+ usual sp.
BS
