Snorkelling

A lunchtime visit to see the Curlew Sandpipers on Crossens Inner was rewarded with bright sun and shady company (Hi Trops! Hi Steve! Hi Duncan! Hi Craig!).

18 of the bendy bills were feeding in the lagoon to the north of Glencoyne Drive, all up to their bellies in water too deep for any Dunlin to venture into (it’s what those long legs are for after all) and happily snorkelling away.

Curlew Sands are regular enough as spring and autumn migrants of course, but I can’t remember 18 together on the marsh before (although my Swiss cheese memory is no guarantee of accuracy these days).

The waders were split into two groups with a few stragglers out behind a small gull roost. I really must stop snapping shaky video grabs, but here you go…

Good numbers of Pinks in the area, with up to 750 melting in the heat shimmer on Crossens Outer.