What a morning! Headed off early, past the marshland villages, to Blacktoft Sands, for my first visit since the start of the pandemic. I wanted to avoid the crowds, because twitchers have been converging on the reserve over the past week to see a white tailed plover: the first Yorkshire sighting for a bird which should really be in Asia rather than Humberside.
Within ten minutes I’d found it, picking its way through the shallows on long, yellow legs (not my pic, but it looked exactly like this). Plenty of other birds around too: a pair of little stints, snipe, ruff, black tailed godwit, common sandpiper, green sandpiper, redshank, ringed plover, water rail, little egret, marsh harrier, cetti’s warbler, reed warbler and a flock of bearded tits…
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