after Spoonbill Red-necked Phalarope was one of the commonest birds I had never seen on the local patch so many thanks to Ian S for the call about this bird feeding on Chowder Ness this afternoon; presumably a gale victim it is in moult to first-winter with some grey crown feathers coming through plus the new grey scaps; it was feeding for a while in a narrow channel and pulling out lots of flat-worms before flying to the shore where it was flushed by the inevitable dog walker
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