A hot afternoon with a moderate W>4 and clear skies making tons of heat distortion.
Bird wise was as this morning on the deck with no special waders but really pleasing to get down behind the scope and scan the NE shoreline which was heaving with Common Sandpipers, Dunlins , Redshanks and Curlew along with the usual Lapwings and Gulls.
Every time you scoped the mud you got different waders as they all scurried about like mice along the shoreline.
Walking back through the boat yard I was 90 % sure I got another Greenshank which was flushed with a Lapwing guarding its chick in the SE corner pools but before I could get on it fully it was off >SW into the sun. All I managed was a white wedge up its back and white tail but couldnt be certain about Redshank but didnt get any wingbars and the Redshanks in the area would only have moved further along the shore. Just another ' Cud av bin' though pretty sure it was.
As I was tackling up 9 grey geese were very high over the western ridge heading my way finally dropping down on the water. They only turned out to be Greylags but unusual for this site apart from the 2 pair with young and these 9 acted as if they had come a distance by the way they acted on the water.
BS