common redshank

Taken during my last road trip in December 2020 to Kuala Baram Wetlands, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. A video vlog was available at my youtube channel if you interested to see more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nxf6CZEr4 Also thanks to members here for helping to ID these birds.

Chevalier gambette Tringa totanus Common Redshank

form the shore. Hope you like it.

Seen on the shoreline of the River Blackwater at Maldon, Essex

Common redshank with catch during sunset

Last bird shot of the trip, so gotta let him have the last word. Husband also - and rather uncharacteristically for him - was captivated by this one. He commented that he was quite awestruck by how much noise such a tiny body could produce. I guess he's forgotten our oldest child's colicky first...

Every now and then these sentinels are silent ... briefly ;)

I did better with the sentinel on the fence. I got several shots through the open car window before the Lapwings flew up and that other car pulled up behind us.

so much as at some crows. Here's another one scolding the crows from another high perch. This was on the west side of the island. We'd driven over there looking for an open caf. There are several good ones on the west side, but they'd all taken the opportunity of the corona closures to start...

What a difference the light makes! Oh, and Delia, the place we stopped for lunch was in a similar, undeveloped heath area off Nyjordveien, the road that follows the central axis of the main island. This stop, where we also saw the Heron and Blackbird, was a long, well-trodden trail off the east...

Apparently the trail passed close by some nesting Redshanks. There was a hedge between the trail and where they must have been nesting (judging by where they flew up from and how agitated they were when anyone walked past). They didn't swoop as close over our heads as the Mew Gulls do hereabouts...

A great day for birding. Lovely bright day, but getting colder. My first redshank with my new camera. What a difference it makes to upgrade after holding back for many a year. I can actually zoom in! Still holding out to the old 100-400 though.

.... that I've got a Lifer here in a Spotted Redshank, the upper bird. It had never crossed my mind really, but a friend looking at my pictures spotted him, and someone in the ID forum thought so too, so am going with it!! The lower bird is a Common Redshank. Such a poor picture though....

Juvenile

Common Redshank