Whilst out about in Norfolk with friends we all called in at Snettisham RSPB this evening to look for a White Rumped Sandpiper.
There were up to five White Rumped Sandpiper's on the North norfolk coast reported today and three had been reported from this site.
As the tide eventually came in and wader numbers increased in the Wash a birder called out that he had found one,the bird was with Dunlin and showed well.
I had only seen one previously at St Mary's Island,Tyne and Wear back in 2002,this is a bird that is well over due in Cheshire and Wirral.
I hadn't visited this site for a good ten years and just enjoyed the rest of the evening watching hundreds of waders in murmuration and watching the sun go down.
