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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Prior" data-source="post: 3925426" data-attributes="member: 66621">Steve-sorry for the delay in answering, I have trawled through all the records for Haute Savoie to check a few things.Of course, an unringed bird with no distinguishing plumage feature/oddity to make it stand out as the same individual may well be unacceptable to the World birding authorities. The evidence is pretty convincing though, I ‘ve been trying to think of a comparison for you. Haute-savoie is landlocked  like Leicestershire but twice the size and further from the sea, Turnstone is very rare, it’s a description species. Discounting this wintering individual which arrives end October/early November, in the past 23 years there have been just five records in the Département, all of migrating birds in late August/early September. Let’s imagine a UK scenario: I’ll make a guess that eg. Purple Sandpiper is very rare in Leicestershire, if one turned up at eg, Rutland Water in 1996, wintered and the same site hosted a single Purple Sandpiper for the next 23 years the balance of probability would tilt towards it being the same bird, n’est-ce pas?( I’ll obviously never cut it as a lawyer/solicitor), I rest my case Milud<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>