The bird is very well camourflaged and hard to find but with plenty of people about and BirdsofPoolHarbour there it was easy to find with being pointed in the right direction.
My thanks to Paul Morton of BirdsofPooleHarbour for using is scope to get the top picture with my phone.
Nightjar taken through a Kowa scope with a Galaxy j5 phone |
Nightjar taken through a Celestron scope with a Galaxy j5 phone |
After watching the now famous Nightjar form he terrace of the Arne cafe I
made my way to Lytchett Fields with hope of catching up with some new birds.
This place never disappoints me out of Sherford Pools there were 270
Black-tailed Godwits some in very wonderful breeding plumage they looked
stunning.
I scanned this field thoroughly but could not find anything new so switched
to French’s view point and started scanning the field held a few Shelduck, 14
Lapwing
one singing Reed Warbler. Then I notice a small bird scurry across the mud,
I get the scope on it and there is not one but two plover now at a distance,
young little ringed plovers,
though at first I was a bit confused with them. As they were very pale
brown almost beige like, struggled to find any yellow orbital ring, as I said
the upper parts with very pale brown/beige colour a white collar at the back of
the head nap area and the head was the same colour, but had a black smudge round
the eye, had a thin black bill with a tiny white patch above the bill/on the
forehead area.
under parts were white and had dark/black legs which I put down to being
covered in mud? They ran quickly a bit like sanderling and stopped picked and
the ground then ran some more.
So when I got home I looked through my books and came to the conclusion
they were juvenile Little Ringed Plovers, but the dark legs did throw me off a
bit.
On the way back up Slough lane I came across a grey wagtail feeding on the
flies in the large puddle by the over hanging scrub willow.
Wow. Doing brilliantly. I need to be more in the loop with regards to birds now. Had no idea about the nightjar.
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