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PiedPiper

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• Jul 30, 2013

• #1

Visited this Reserve this summer and saw this distant wader. The images are poor, but is it a green sandpiper?

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Stuart Darbyshire

45th generation Northern

• Jul 30, 2013

• #2

although it looks a bit Wood Sand like in the 1st pic, I think its a Redshank

 

phil baber

Clipped Wing

• Jul 31, 2013

• #3

I see the Wood Sand thing. Reckon it's a juv Redshank?

 

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PiedPiper

Active member

• Jul 31, 2013

• #4

There were plenty of redshanks around at the time. I did a Google search on juvenile redshanks and the images are very much like what I have.

Thanks Stuart and Phil
PS - Phil you need to go to bed - 03:59 for a post - how do you do it

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eddy the eagle

Well-known member

• Aug 1, 2013

• #5

I've often wondered that myself,maybe he is at "work".....Eddy