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The Black-Tailed Godwit – Limosa limosa – is a wader (as can be seen here) which is a protected bird in the UK with just 53 breeding pairs, the remainder are wintering birds from Iceland. Their normal diet is insects, snails and worms but they will also eat beetles, grasshoppers and other small insects and some plants during the breeding season. This one was seen searching for food at Martin Mere Wetlands.
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Walton is a great place for waders. The redshank is a small-to-middle sized wader, classed as Amber in the UK as it has been reducing in number. Winter numbers include many birds which fly in from Iceland; it does breed in the UK, but mainly in Scotland and northern England. D500_74956.NEF
With winter fast approaching I try to take advantage of any break in the weather. I was surprised to find a few of these at this spot, especially close to the viewing platform and in good light. I'm always pleased when I manage to get the red eye-ring in the shot.
This elegant ae’o feeds on fish, arthropods, and various invertebrates in shallow shoreline marshes and wetlands. Though frequently seen in the main Hawaiian archipelago, ae’o, the Hawaiian stilt, is listed as endangered due to loss of habitat and predation by introduced species. A non-migratory, endemic subspecies of the black neck stilt, it has the second longest legs (after flamingos) relative to body size among birds.
I always love watching flocks of waders in flight and I'm hoping to get some bigger group shots in Norfolk next week!
Another from our visit to Lake Preston. Fortunate to have a sufficiently high shutter set when the bird took off unexpectedly.
The glossy ibis breeds in parts of southern and southeast Europe and are only occasional visitors to the UK.Most glossy ibises arrive in autumn, occasionally staying through the winter, though they could be seen in any month. It's often young birds that turn up here, sometimes just months after leaving the nest.
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I'm glad to see Oare Marshes in Kent can still put on a bit of a show at this time of year. Here you have Avocets at the top and Black-tailed Godwits flying in the middle and standing in the water at the bottom.
We’ve already got a few shorebirds back - maybe failed breeders or young birds. Redshank and turnstone pencil sketches.