Little Stint & Tawny Pipit

A cycle down to Medmerry Stilt Pools was fairly productive: Little Stint, two Curlew Sandpipers, two Ruff, several Green and Common Sandpipers, two Bar- Headed Geese, a Black Swan, a few Dunlin and a good number of Wheatears. I say "fairly" as the walk to the breach itself was disappointing with not a lot on show apart from a decent shoal of  Bass on the out-going flow.



Bar-Headed Geese having a preen:

Little Stint:

I suppose they may well have been more than two Curlew Sandpipers on the pools as as I was counting them a text came through to advise me of a Tawny Pipit at Hayling Island. And so after a wander around a golf course, discovering that I could've parked two miles closer and the bird disappearing for an hour, it eventually showed really well and it was a cracker as all Tawny Pipits are. Also great to see some good numbers of Clouded Yellows out and a few friendly faces too, always good.

Clouded Yellow:

Tawny Pipit: