In recent years we have usually have a couple of Curlews lingering during the summer. I suspect that they are immature birds that do not have breeding urges as yet! At the moment they are spending part of most days on the Purfleet Scrape trying to ignore all the noisy behaviour from the fidgety, flighty Redshanks and Lapwings!
Curlew (Les Harrison)
Redshank... think that this is the female as the males legs are more red than orange (Chris Lowe)
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