05/05/2023 Lunt Meadows

Temminck's Stint: An annual tick most years with regular passages birds turning up locally, I couldn't resist an evening walk around Lunt. 

Gary and I just arrived after a very heavy shower and the sun was breaking though lighting up the puddles and rain drops, this place was stunning. 

The small waders breed mainly in the tundra zone from Scandinavia eastwards to eastern Siberia with much of their European breeding located in Russia. Their wintering areas are from the Mediterranean basin and northern Afrotropics across the Middle East and east across southern Asia to Japan.

Sedge Warbler: The Temminck's was pretty faithful to the low lying island on a large muddy pool called The Great White Pool and was habitually creeping along the muddy Bankside feeding away. 

Common Sandpiper: We were also hoping for a barn owl or two, knowing that Lunt is a premier location for owls but they weren't out during our short visit. 

16/05/2020 Brockholes, Preston

Temminck's Stint: Today was my birthday and after a lovely morning having been spoilt by Dawn and our little baby Autumn. I was keen to set off out somewhere.

Luckily there are some very decent local birders who are still putting news of the local rarities and not forming cliques and suppressing news, I doubt a dozen local birders would have made a significant impact on the already awful Covid-19 statistics.

It was Bill Aspin who found the bird and broke the news. Thanks Bill.

Upon arriving the bird was foraging on the shores of pit no:1.

Here are some images I took this time last year during my birding trip to Lesvos, Greece.

Theses bird are tiny, greyish-brown waders with a white belly and short, stubby, yellowish legs. On these images from Lesvos you can clearly make out its yellowish legs.





Nice to have bumped in to Bill and local birders Mark and Gill Cookson, albeit from a socially approved distance.