Return to Frampton for Buff-breasted Sandpiper.

The three of us drove up the A1 on Thursday to Frampton RSPB in Lincolnshire,we put in a 5 hour shift looking for the Buff-breasted Sandpiper but it is all in vain with no sighting of the bird the whole time we were there.
Of course as soon as we get near home it appears  on the pager as showing from where we had been looking for it.
So we have a talk & decide to try again on Saturday.
We set out at 5 am for the 2 hour  or so drive to look again. I have only seen one Buff-breasted before so it would be great to get a good view of this one. Parking at the bottom car park ,we are soon on the hill scanning over the large scrape, it's more or less the same as Thursday when we see Wood & curlew Sandpipers loads of Spoonbills plus hundreds of Godwits & Dunlin  & the most Ringed Plover I have ever seen, but still no sign of the target bird. Brian does spot the long staying Dowitcher not needed for a tick always nice to see one.
We spread out with Brian doing the walking round to the hide on the other side of the scrape with birders looking from the sea wall.
After an hour more of no sighting I look up & see people starting to run along to join a group on the sea wall,always a good sign so we phone Brian & head up there to join them.
Sure enough on arrival we find they have the bird in sight.
It's hard to find at first but up goes the shout it's out in the open & that's it we have another year tick & after a while we all get much better views than the last one I saw.
With Brian finding a Whinchat that he needed it turns out to be a good decision to come back.

Brian's distant record shoot of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper.