Semipalmated Sandpiper .Hayle September.
You can just make out the small webs on the feet.
Semipalmated Sandpiper is a North American breeder which usually winters in central and south America and is a very rare vagrant to Britian.
Posing here with a dunlin to the left .
This first winter bird showed very well at times and would walk to within a few metres of people present.
Bairds Sandpiper.
Another North American bird which breeds in eastern Siberia too and winters in south America and a rare vagrant to Britain .
This is a first winter bird
Hayle September.
Little Stint , Marazion September.
This is another first winter bird.
This smart little wader breeds in the high Artic coastal tundra of north Scandinavia and central Siberia it passes through Britain as a passage migrant mainly in Autumn in small numbers on its way to its sub Saharan wintering grounds.
First winter Ruff , Marazion .
Hobby Porthgwarra September.
This was one of two juvenile Hobbys seen hawking for Dragonflies and Butterflies in the morning sunshine over the moor .
It was a real pleasure to sit there and watch these agile falcons in action.
Snow Bunting. Porthdwarra.
Lapland Bunting.
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