Lake Ellesmere Sept 29 2019

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wrattens
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Lake Ellesmere Sept 29 2019

Postby wrattens » Thu Oct 03, 2019 10:42 am

The Marsh Sandpiper was still there around noon. It was feding actively around the famous Embankment Road fence line
Also 4 banded dotterls but not mulch


PS You might have heard that gull-billed tern has been split-the Australaian one is different from Eurasia etc-an armchair tick for many of us. Ours is now

Gelochelidon macrotarsa

Steve Wratten

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