Sunday, November 15, 2009

Witch Bird ?

Was it a Dotterel? There was a small bird  on the ground shortly before Nico, TF and I reached the ladder stile before  the summit of Pendle Hill. I could not identify it but subsequent research shows that Pendle Hill, and the particular area that we were in, is the most likely place in the north west to see a Dotterel in passage between the Cairngorms and Southern Italy. Passage south, in Autumn, can be irregular, but the only down side to all of this is that they have usually gone by this time of the year.

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