A visit to Årnestangen
was supposed to coincide with rain and indeed it did, and bang on time, but
this time I chickened out when I saw the wall of rain coming towards me and
beat a hasty retreat! The water level has risen since I was last there making
the remaining exposed sand banks far less
attractive to waders and there was not too much to see. Indeed when I
arrived I could only find a single Redshank but during the next two and a half hours
a number of other waders suddenly appeared either as new arrivals or just that
they moved to visible feeding grounds (there is unfortunately quite a lot of
the area that is not visible from the viewing platform due to vegetation and angles).
In the end I had 2 Knot, 2 Grey Plover, 1 Spotted Redshank, 2 Redshank, 2
Greenshank, 8 Ruff, 1 Whimbrel, 1 Golden Plover, 7 Ringed Pover, 5 Dunlin and a
few Snipe flying over.
Duck numbers are
building up with 600 Teal and the first Pochard of the autumn.
Raptors were also a bit
more numerous with 2-3 juvenile Marsh Harriers, 4 Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk,
2 Osprey and singles of Kestrel, Hobby and Peregrine.
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