Better birding locally

Today (1st October) not only did I immediately relocate the mini-flock of 4-8 Curlew Sandpipers today, at the nearby estuary, but I also managed to find my own Little Stint (one was reported here about a week ago, but I didn’t see it, nor was it relocated). This one, a juvenile, showed well as it fed amongst the Redshank and Curlew Sandpipers, but getting anywhere close to it proved nigh on impossible. Moments later, the whole lot went up and my suspicions were confirmed when the semi-resident male Merlin was spotted as the culprit causing the havoc. Later in the day, at around high tide, I then went round the peninsula anti-clockwise, and spent most of the afternoon in the nearby woods, where my feeders are. I moved the feeders into the sunshine, having filled them up, and almost immediately there was a flurry of activity as all the usual tit species descended – including Willow Tit and Long-tailed Tit. And I also got better photos of them – and of Treecreeper. Greenshank again proved hard to approach back at the estuary, but again I got marginally better shots this time.