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Today was a mega day!  A day full of Waders. The Baird's Sandpiper at Coldharbour Lagoon gratefully remained into the weekend.  A 25 minute walk from the Reculver Towers car park along the Viking Trail to a modest stretch of pools located between the path and the river wall.  En route, a surprise Great Skua flew west close into the shoreline momentarily dropping onto the calm waters before lethargically heading off west. The Lagoons held a small selection of waders including six Ringed Plover , Redshank , Greenshank , Little Stint , two Dunlin , and of course our American friend.  The bird showed brilliantly despite the disturbance of passing cyclists and vocal birders that included myself and Adam Hudson whom I was thrilled to meet. We both headed back seeing Yellow Wagtail , a single Northern Wheatear , and a Turnstone  posing on the exposed rocks. After a late lunch and cake in Margate with Kat and her friend, we headed over to Oar...

I was in a foul mood last week, admittedly I spent much of Friday clearing up the toys that I had unceremoniously thrown out of my pram.  I shouldn't really have these items in my flat anyway as I have no children of my own or anyone else's.  The reason for these histrionics were simple.  A sprinkling of  Desert Wheatear  shaped gold-dust along the eastern coastline, and no efficient means to see them. There are many photographs of the bird that I went to see today at Reculver in Kent scattered like gold-dust all over the interweb, by which I mean, websites dedicated for proliferating news about birds.  And the reasons were strikingly obvious. So today, I took out a second mortgage and headed over to Avis rent-a-car in the centre of Londinium, where it took around four days to complete the paperwork, and another week and a half to negotiate my way out of London.  Thankfully the bird was still present when I arrived. Having mentioned gold-dus...