Yesterday I went to see the Lesser Yellowlegs at RSPB Lodmoor in Weymouth, its been there for about a month now. The 1st one I saw was in 2013 on the Exe Estuary very far out. I then saw one closer to home at Cheddar Reservoir.
When you look at photo's of them you imagine them to be a bird about the size of a Godwit, in fact they are tiny little birds smaller than a common redshank. The light was very harsh during the day so I waited for the Sun to drop to get the soft evening colours.
The Photo below was taken in October 2016 at Cheddar Reservoir. This bird was ridiculously close.
It was a good trip to Dorset, I saw several Black Redstarts and the Hoopoe. The Hoopoe was in a private field tucked in low in the high grass on Portland Bill it was a long distance away and there was lots of haze preventing me from getting a great photo.