Garth Peacock
A day of two halves

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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Friday 9th September 2022

2nd September and I wanted a break from gardening so headed up to the RSPB reserve at Frampton Marsh on the Lincolnshire side of The Wash. Loads of Curlew Sandpipers, a juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper and other waders had been reported. Arrived around 9.00am and headed straight for the 360 hide. Sat there for a couple of hours without seeing anything of note and certainly nothing within range of the camera. The juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper was on view, right to the far side of the scrape - a dot in the viewfinder.

Met someone I knew so we headed out and stood on the observation hill overlooking Reedbed  Scrape (I think that is what it is called). Plenty of action there with Little Stints, Curlew Sandpipers and Snipe but just not quite within range of the camera. I took plenty of photos and subsequently deleted them all. I moved to the Reedbed Hide where a couple of Snipe were feeding, much closer in. Success at last!!!

With nothing else within range, I went for lunch and then moved the car from the main car park to the small car park near the sea wall. Looking around, there was nothing of interest there either so I walked back up the track, still seeing nothing of note and ended up back at the 360 hide. This time, the Pectoral Sandpiper was closer and moving towards the hide - a little bit of patience required. First a distant wing flap

and then it continued much closer - in fact a little too close as I was looking down on it but better than nothing.

I then moved back to the Reedbed Hide where a smallish flock of Curlew Sandpipers flew in and started to feed in the mud.

Snipe were also there until a Sparrowhawk flew in from over the hide and put everything up. The Snipe was the first to react,

with the Curlew Sandpipers flying around

and even a lone Ringed Plover put to flight.

With everything now dispursed over the scrape, it was time to call a halt and go home - rubbish morning, passable afternoon. A day of two halves.