Sanderling - Calidris alba

As I've said many times before Sanderling are one of my favourite waders with good numbers spending the winter on the Northumberland coast scuttling in and out on the tide edge like a wind-up toy.

 

I've never seen a full summer plumaged bird at home they tend to still be in their grey and whites when they head back north but some of the ones on the Western Isles were in their full glorious technicolour getup

Done