Recalling a vagrant plover

Heady days! Perhaps this year will be the turn of Cleethorpes. I'm already on high alert.

As warden of the NNR i was alerted to the birds presence by Kev Wilson of LWT at Gib point
I had to rapidly contact various people , to organise a parking area on a Trust owned grassfield adjacent to the small Rimac car park
volunteers to marshall parking and waymarkers to the field and onto the foreshore also a donation box
several hundreds of cars parked on the grassfield over the weekend and several celebrities and politcians visited amongst the c 6000
over the weekend
many birders continued to visit over the following days .

regards John

Can anyone remember the lesser sandplover that was detected by Michael Tarrant and Barry Clarkson at Rimac on May 11, 2002?

It stayed until May 15 and, at the time, was only the  third British record - the others had occurred in Aberdeenshire (1991) and Pagham Harbour (1997). 

Initially thought to be a greater sandplover, the identification was changed on the basis of shorter legs and stubbier bill.

An illustration features in Twitching by Numbers, the recently-published book by Garry Bagnell who made the trip from Sussex to view what he describes as the "most important" bird he saw that year.