Wave of SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS reach UK

Some 20 or more SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPERS have reached the UK and Ireland in recent days perhaps reflecting the change in weather to a more westerly airflow since last Sunday. One juvenile in particular commuted back and forth between Abbotsbury Swannery and Brownsea Island in Dorset and may well have been the bird I photographed today at Keyhaven Marshes in Hampshire. It was a particularly confiding individual...........