The last few days on the Axe Estuary Wetlands

Predictably the little stint has still dominated.  Here it is pouncing on flies! 

A trip to the Borrow Pit produced only these migrant hawkers

Back to Black hole marsh and could not resist this ring plover asking for its photo to be taken

And yet again the little stint

This lapwing took quite a dislike to this redshank

And look who just managed to get into the middle of this one

Little stint, dunlin and ring plovers

A quick fly past of dunlin

Glad to see some little grebes back here this week

A superb ring plover

A black tailed godwit a bit closer to the island hide than usual

A poor picture of a snipe into the sun this morning

Finally there was a feeding frenzy of hundreds of back headed gulls plus 22 litte egrets over the back of black hole marsh this morning all catching plenty of small fish

Little stint, kingfisher and fox

The little stint on Black hole marsh finally came much nearer at mid morning so naturally could not resist taking a few photos

 

 

 

 

 

 The kingfisher also posed by the river though not the best of photos

 

 

A poor photo of a fox through the vegetation

 

2 of the 3 greenshank present on Black hole marsh

 

And 2 ring plovers which were not the best of friends

 

 

Lots to see at Black Hole Marsh

Apart from the usual dunlin, ring plovers, black tailed godwits, green and common sandpipers, greenshank, redshank and the spotted redshank to name but a few today was a little different. 
There was a kittiwake lying low amongst the grass which was a bit worrying, though it did eventually fly but not too far.  Late afternoon it was still present on an island amongst the black headed gulls.  Hopefully it was just exhausted from yesterdays weather and will soon recover.  This afternoons pictures are at the end.

2 of the 3 ruff

 

The knot

 

and more kittiwake pictures

Snipe and turnstone

Plenty to see at Black hole marsh this weekend including 2 snipe earlier today

Plenty of dunlin

 

ring plovers

 

and 3 lapwing

Yesterday there was a distant turnstone

and still plenty of green sandpipers

 

Spotted redshank still present but distant.

Spotted redshank, wheatears and more

The spotted reshank posed close to the hide this morning so had lots of pictures like this

and could not resist this little egret standing so patiently

Yesterday morning Seaton marshes had 3 wheatears with another one on Black hole marsh

The antics of this robin amused for a good 10minutes bobbing its head from side to side so had to photograph it!

These godwits, dunlin and water vole are from last week on Black hole marsh.

Wood sandpiper and others

The Wood sandpiper from this morning on Black Hole Marsh posing nicely for photos this morning

a lone greenshank

and yet again some dunlin from yesterday resting peacefully

Though not for long