The two Wood Sandpipers from the weekend did not make it to the Wednesday Walk today but have afforded excellent views since the weekend. Up to six Green Sandpipers have been feeding on the same dwindling puddle on Purfleet Scrape.
With lots of work due over the coming months we should be hosting some more waders on their way through.
Wood Sand by Brenda Clayton
Wood Sand (Jonathan Wasse)
Green Sand (Jonathan Wasse) Note the darker plainer plumage of the Green Sand with just a little bit of a supercillium in front of the eye (not huge like in the Woods), the lightly potted upperparts (not a spangly golden pattern)
Howard Vaughan, Information Officer