There have not been many images of this weeks sharp-tailed sandpiper from Greatham Creek, Cleveland, so here is another "image" ~ a composite of soft-focus record images taken with two extenders stacked on the 500mm. By no means sharp for a sharp-tail, but suffice to present. Probably. Darker chestnut cap, pale super, pec-like but pec-less, long legged, marked flanks...
View from the watchpoint at Greatham Creek - the sandpiper was feeding on the mud exposed by low tide just right of the staithe, associating with a few dunlin, redshank and the occasional curlew. As can be seen from the image below, the bird was not really that close - the arrow indicates where the sandpiper had been feeding! (The assembled viewers can be seen on the right portion of the mobile-phone "panorama" shot...
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When we were there John tide was further up and bird was the nearest one to us... light could have been better though..
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