As Graham has stipulated, the possible Wood Sandpiper was in fact a juvenile Common Redshank - the second such identification confusion of this type in two days - and following on from the same misidentification at College Lake just under a month ago. Easily happens.
Manor Farm Workings was full of birds though - and huge potential - and now being managed by the Parks Trust who were on site detailing what they were going to do with the site. Interesting stuff - and following on the lines of Marston Vale. Talk of reedbeds again - cripes !
Anyhow, back to the birds - or waders
4 summer-plumaged DUNLIN on site, 2 adult COMMON SNIPES, 6 Little Ringed Plovers, the Oystercatcher pair, 168 Lapwing, 3 GREEN SANDPIPERS and 7 COMMON SANDPIPERS
96 Common Terns, a sickly sub-adult Common Gull, Coot with 3 chicks and two broods of Tufted Duck - a 4 and a 7
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