Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire - 30. 8. 21
So there I am sat in the Forest of Dean and up pops a report up on Birdguides that around midday a Black-tailed Lapwing or Plover had been found at Blacktoft Sands and as usual I'm at the opposite end of the country. It's not long before images start to appear later in the day from the usual local suspects, maybe it will stick around until the end of the week ?
Black-tailed Lapwings are to be found breeding in central Asia to Iraq wintering in east Africa and India so way out of their normal range to the UK
Now Monday the Lapwing is still present, thinking it's going to be quite on a Monday my wife reminds me it's a bank holiday doh !...having already set my mind to a visit I decide to go anyway and set the alarm to arrive just when the hides open at 8.0am. Pulling into the carpark it's full, at the hide it's also full, with standing room only with just a short wait Im sat and set to go.
The WTL is only showing occasionally spending most of the time behind a large island, when it dose show it's distant never coming within range for a decent image, now Blacktof isn't one of those locations where you are going to get a close view but the R5 have good cropping capabilities just so long as the light is good and today it isn't...hey ho as they say,
Just a few reasonable images on the day, I will add a few more if there's any worth posting, I might even try again next week as the forecast looks a little better.
Black-tailed Lapwing / Plover
Common Snipe
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