A great couple of hours at the flash this afternoon, with this juvenile (male?) ruff the highlight. It was quite comical to watch it feeding on weed
washed up on the tideline of the spit. It walked at pace from the top of the
spit all the way down to Horrock's hide and then back three times while I watched, feeding all
the time. Ruffs are rare birds at the flash, we get more avocets annually
these days, and presumably the same bird was reported yesterday. I don't know
what the weed is but it appeared on the tideline a week or two ago and is
probably what has kept the bird here because there is precious little other
habitat for it.
Also today a hobby hunted over the ruck, a great white egret was on the mini
spit and two green sandpipers were in Ramsdales.
I always try to spend a bit of time looking for black-headed gulls with rings
and this 1st calendar year bird was new today. The blue ring says TNAE, whilst
on the metal ring you can read the name Gdansk, so clearly a Polish bird. I've
reported it and will post the details here when I get them, but it's going to
be in the region of 1400km (900 miles) which is not bad for a bird that was
ringed this year and is little more than 2 months old!
Green sandpiper.
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