Filey Dams.
The wind is ripping across the ponds.
As we approached the carpark we knew by the cars parked on the road that something was afoot. This could be one of those days when the weather has been right and a rarity had blown in. We entered the first hide. I say entered, more like squeezed in. It was standing room only. The big boys were there with their even bigger cameras. I broke out into a sweat, not because of the nervous anticipation of what awaited us but from sitting in the hide with 15 others on a bench meant for 6! Well I know you are dying to know what brought this lot from the four corners of Filey. Well you'll have to wait a bit longer, I'm going to milk this one. What I've just described happened the previous day and I can tell you we had missed the rare visitor. This is what happened this morning. When we entered the same hide one of the big boys with his even bigger camera was still in the same corner from yesterday. Now had he been there all night afraid of losing the spot today I asked myself? We'd hardly had time to sit down when he told us where our special guest was. We couldn't believe it. Our first Pectoral Sandpiper and all the way from the US of A. Unfortunately it was in the pond just beyond the dam, just out ot reach of my Brownie127. As it turned out our fellow birder in the hide was a companionable chap by the name of Steve Race, some of you birders/photographers may be familiar with the name, anyway I'm going to ask him if he would kindly let us have a picture of the bird for the blog. So keep checking it out. And finally another first from the other hide. A juvenile male Pintail courtesy of a young lady as we were leaving the first hide. Not only do you get a lot of satisfaction from a first sighting but a lot more from meeting some really nice people willing to share time and knowledge with you.
Notice how low the water level is.
Pectoral Sandpiper*, Pintail*, Snipe, Barnacle Goose, Redshank, Pinkfooted Goose, Little Grebe, Teal, Grey Heron.
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