Amazingly the long staying white-tailed plover which has been on the east coast between Blacktoft and Hickling Broad since August last year and as recently as yesterday was at Saltfleetby in Lincolnshire, today turned up at Bickershaw Rucks behind the Nevison Inn.
What an amazing find this must have been, and the bird is now in cracking summer plumage, almost a different species to the bird that I saw first in heavy moult at Blacktoft in early September.
My third in the North West, following birds at Leighton Moss in 2007 and Seaforth in 2010. It showed very well and didn't seem particularly jumpy, allowing approach to as close as 50m. Bickershaw gets a lot of disturbance from scrambler bikes and it doesn't seem likely that the bird will stay long but great to enjoy it while we can.
Edit: 01/06/2022 - The bird was still present yesterday but was flushed by bikes in the evening and left. The following day it was found at Woolston Eyes and the day after it had moved to Sandwell RSPB in the midlands.
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