Grey / Black-bellied Plovers

even over there bright juvs were being identified as American Goldies -- yes they are common in Britain but I can never get anywhere near one on the Lincs coast here I just sat down and they flew in and landed next to me then walked closer --

Black-bellied Plovers

summer plumages arctic waders are incomparable

more shorebirds

juvenile Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit and a Curlew --

juvenile Grey Plover

juveniles arriving on the upper estuary in numbers now -- a slight turn of the head and the eye disappears

Grey Plover

Canon 300 2.8 II + 2x III and 1D4 -- hand held

waders and ice

Dunlin, a lone Ringed Plover and Grey Plover surviving amongst the icy waters of the Humber and roosting with pack ice washing ashore --

Bar-tailed Godwit and Grey Plover

Grey Plover