Black-winged Stilt at Bowers Marsh

A phone call to Brian to see if he wanted to go to Bowers to see 2 Black-winged Stilt that had landed at lunch time, Jimmy gets home from work at 4 o'clock & Brian says he will be home by then so we give it a go in the hope they will hang around for a while.
It's only 36 miles away & I drive this time & 45 minutes later we are walking down the very long path to Freshwater Lagoon, 2 other birders are already on the birds when we arrive.
They are right over the back of the Lagoon, we get great views in the scope but it's a long way of for any good photos.  We spend about an hour just watching the Stilts walking about & also having a good old splash about.
Another nice year tick for all three of us, after a while a few more people arrive & then Harry & Barry turn up.
A few Avocet & Ruff are on the island also Shelduck swimming about, a Greenshank flies over, all in all a very nice visit to ease the pain of work for the boys, looking forward to tomorrow when Jimmy & I  are going to look for the Hoopoe in Kent, Brian has to work but he has seen the bird a couple of days ago.