A Short Walk
I took another short walk around Swinemoor again this morning to see if any interesting waders were still to be found.
The first birds I came across was a party of 5 Redwings which flew away from their feeding spot on the hawthorn bushes. On the floods the numbers of Black-headed Gulls had increased to 45 with 4 Common Gulls and about 60 Lapwings were present. A few Golden Plovers were also amongst the Lapwings and a group of about 30 More Golden Plover were nervously flying around. Close to the path 2 Ruff were feeding - a male and a female. This species seems much more approachable than other shorebirds and I again got very good close-up views.
Not much else to be seen so I resorted to taking photos of some Mute Swans with 2 juveniles.
It wasn’t until I got onto the River Hull flood defences that I saw 3 Snipe although I am sure there were plenty more lurking in the wet grass. Scanning across the common I also spotted 2 Curlew feeding amongst rushes, one bird was a juvenile with a relatively short bill and the other was an adult. A little further along another Ruff was feeding alongside a couple of Lapwings and the final species of interest was a group of 4 Fieldfares which flew towards me from across the common, but when they spotted me, they turned around and flew back. So, I did the same thing, and headed back.
