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Sunday 27 May 2012

Thurlestone Bay

The Great White Egret showed well for most of the day if at times it was on the back of the marsh.

Waders on the beaches were - 16 Whimbrel, 7 Turnstone, 6 Sanderling, 1 Bar Tailed Godwit, 1 Ringed Plover.1 Knot

Vic T and Eric W found one of the Sanderling had  rings and flag - lft leg- Red flag over Green, rt leg - Green/ Yellow.
They also had a Grey Plover and 30 Common Scoter

Whilst Bob B was collecting the car park fees he had a Turtle Dove flyover ( 1st of the year ).

We had a colour ringed sanderling last year - since when I have lost all my old e-mails- I think it was maurice @ Barnstable who gave me the web address to write to ( Holland from memory ) Would appreciate any info for this site .