More wader passage today with a gorgeous summer plumaged male Ruff out on Lytchett Fields. We rarely see them in this plumage, as most of our birds tend to be fresh juveniles in the autumn. Out in Holes Bay north there were 5 Curlew, 2 Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 2 Common Tern.
Ruff – Lytchett Fields – Shaun Robson

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