Purple sandpiper

Apologies, Pete - I should have reminded you that the main Cleethorpes beach is out of bounds to all shoreline birds on Sunday mornings.

However, the purple sandpiper was all present and correct at 1.20pm. today. It had a whole breakwater to itself (no turnstones) as it waited for the high tide to turn.  

Went to try and locate the Purple Sand at Cleethorpes but Sunday is the wrong day to go and there was a big litter pick on the rock armour (which is a good thing).

Then went to Mablethorpe to catch the one on the outfall which was showing well.

Pete  

This one briefly near Cleethorpes rock armour at 11.45am today. But then the inevitable happened, and I didn't see it again.

Thanks for update, Elizabeth

Timing is everything.

I was there between 2.30pm and 3pm today, and couldn't find it.  By this time, the wader numbers were far fewer than an hour earlier yesterday. However, I did count c 50 dunlin feeding on the sand/mud at the whale's tail.

I went down today at 2pm on the ebb tide and saw it amongst Turnstones, Knots, Dunlins, Redshanks and Sanderlings and a few Oystercatchers (and gulls) amongst the pebbles between Fuller Street Bridge and the Whaletail. 

At 1.30pm today ( a couple of hours after hight tide), one purple sandpiper was feeding amid the rock pools on the beach directly opposite Fuller Street rail bridge. 

Also at this location were many common and b-h gulls, plus turnstones, redshank and knot plus a few dunlin, oystercatchers and ringed plover. Further north, adjacent to the rock armour, there were c 10 curlew.

They all looked very impressive in the sunshine.