Godwits...

A bit more bird watching this morning, as I saw the avocets swap nest-sitting duties. I saw a couple of bar-tailed godwits in a flock of the commoner black-tailed godwits, which made it easier to tell these two rather similar species apart. The black-tailed godwits are quite aggressive, always up for a fight (though they never seem to hurt each other… even with that dagger of a beak). The highlight of the morning was a pair of ruffs, coming into their elaborate breeding plumage. Then, after all these days of unclouded blue skies, the rains came.

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