'I better get a shot before the golfers flush it...'
'...well it doesn't look too bothered, they've stepped over it...'
' I might circle around and get one of the twitch...'
'...softly does it...'
'..thats just about close enough before it runs away...'
'...hang on, its turning this way...'
' and running towards me!'
' Hello mate, nice pose...'
( Click on this'un )
I reckon this young Dotterel hasn't had much to do with people. It came to within 3 yards, before doing an about trun and wandering off to feed away from the birders and golfers. A belter of a lttle bird. I like the way the eye stripes form a 'd.a' cut round the back.
Also on the course were 12+ Wheatears and a nice male Redstart.
A distant 'splash' flushed the birds, sounded like a birder taking a tumble to me ;)
5 comments:
Brilliant, what a bird.
Reminds me of a Lapland Bunting seen happily feeding on the ground at Minsmere, literally surrounded by a ring of about 20 birders.
morinellus - the little fool.
Great pics. I wonder if these birds will linger until Wednesday...my next day off.
Superb dots...I wosh i had gone, the last dotterel I saw in the County was on Newbiggin golf course!
Friend of yours here:
http://rxwildlife.org.uk/2008/09/13/dotterel/#more-6778
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