Spotted Redshank? UK (20/8/14) (1 Viewer)

Hello everyone.

About a week ago I saw this wader which I (perhaps optimistically) thought could be a candidate for Spotted Redshank. Unfortunately the bird was way on the other side of an estuary and even with the good zoom on my camera I couldn't be sure. To add to the frustration when I was trying to move into a better viewing position a passing dog walker on the other side of the water flushed all the waders and I lost sight of the bird.

I confess I forgot all about it until I uploaded the contents of my SD card onto the computer today and came across the photo. I would be grateful if anyone could take a look and see what they think (the bird on the left). Apologies for the dismal quality, but like I said this was a pretty distant bird.

To me it looks like one A. Nice selection of birds in the first photo as well.

Rich

juv spotshank it is.

Thank you both!

Happy to have this bird confirmed but now I am annoyed that I didn't make more of an effort to re-find it (well to be perfectly honest I am more annoyed at the dog-walker... but there you go :C).

Cheers again for the help.

Was this the one at Grimley......was there for agas and got really close for some.....

Keith