We arrived at around 7 a.m. at Stodmarsh to find around 20 birders already looking for the bird.
We only had a very small area to look through the bushes at a small patch of mud where the bird had been seen yesterday and that was where Brian had also seen it.
We spent 3 hours with no luck, Brian had gone to look around at Reedhide just in case it turned up there, and we had a call to say a Water Pipit was showing well and we needed it for a year tick so we stretched our legs as they had gone to sleep with the standing so long and found the Pipit without much trouble and was glad to sit in the hide for a while.
Then we got the call that the target bird had shown back where we had come from, so we headed back at pace to be told that the Sandpiper was showing on and off on the small patch of mud walking from right to left and back again to give Jimmy and me another lifer.
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| The Water Pipit |
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| The Sandpiper |
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| Water rail that we saw |
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| Jimmy & I with a few of the other birders |
