Terek Sandpiper

first images -- lots of course look very similar --

Terek first shot of the morning

superb Terek Sandpiper at Covenham Reservoir -- looks like I somehow took 547 photos but I am guessing 500 are maybe rubbish - this was the first one I took -- best light is always early am - plenty of sorting to be done

Red-necked Phalarope

an impossible location for photos; up above the bird strong side lighting, bird never that close but splendid through the scope

peripheral wader action from North Cave

Black-headed Gull predator

would not have put these down as an Avocet chick killer

Whitethroat

dawn in the forest this week

reedbed Gropper

not all locusts in reedbeds are Savi's -- a nice Grasshopper Warbler

fledgling Long-eared Owl

seems to be a few more nests this year maybe a good vole year?

Whinchats on the patch

two female Whinchats on Waters' Edge this afternoon; 500+ Swifts and an Arctic Tern