My usual lunchtime visit to Bowling Green coincided with the low tide so it was no surprise there was not much activity. In the hide met Ian Pearson who found a distant mystery wader off the viewing platform, so we both went back to investigate. By this time it had moved a little closer and was easily identified as a summer plumage Spotted Redshank loosely attached to a flock of 47 Redshank. I don't ever remember seeing one this late in the year and the last ones I saw there were in mid April.
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