Checking for colour-ringed knot

I wondered who they were. I was on my way up to the saltmarsh when I clocked them way out on the tide line.

Shorebird-monitoring was this morning underway on  the beach outside Cleethorpes Leisure Centre.This duo had made the two-hour trip from Leeds couple to scan a flock of knot in order to establish if any had colour rings on their legs. Impressively, they detected no fewer than nine colour-ringed birds - the rings having been attached to their legs in locations as diverse as The Wash, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and the Netherlands. An added bonus for the Leeds visitors was that, during their spell here, they also glimpsed and heard a Lapland bunting flying overhead.