Farlington and Warswash

Stef's blisters are still quite bad so we didn't run over the weekend. However we managed a couple of short bird-watching walks yesterday; firstly at Farlington Marshes and then at Warswash

To be honest it's not a great time of year to be at these reserves (breeding warblers etc are are still busy with young and it's a month or so early for the main wader migration) but we saw something like 35 to 40 recently returned black-tailed godwit (many still in breeding-plumage) along with a pair of avocet, plus lapwing, oystercatcher, curlew, shelduck, linnet, skylark, moorhen, heron, coot and a pair of huge great black-backed gulls

The tide was out at Farlington and we spent some time looking at waders a long way from the shore and I suspect we might have had a whimbrel among them but the glare from the sun and the distance made it very difficult to be sure