FEEDING ON SCRAPES

PECTORAL SANDPIPERPEC SAND and MED GULLSPEC SAND

Saturday was becoming a bit of a bore,been into Dover in the morning,watched a bit of golf,had a power nap,done some unenthusiastic gardening,thought Id have a quick scan of the KOS sitings and the pectoral sandpiper had re emerged on Rest Harrow scrape, so off to Sandwich I went.The hide there is not large, but one seat remained, the bird was on the middle island feeding quite happily,the others in the hide knew not that what they saw was a vagrant from america.About the size and stamp of a dunlin with a small ruff like posture it could easily be overlooked Iwould imagine.The juvenile Little Ringed Plover also showed briefly a couple of Med Gulls flew in Yellow Wagtails,a family group? were present with  Sand and House Martins aplenty,and that made my day folks.