White-rumped Sandpiper

We made a small detour to Lodmoor this morning to find the white-rumped sandpiper that was found there yesterday. It was associating with a small group of dunlins and was rather flighty,and became number 1413 on my life list. Also at Lodmoor were 8 greenshanks and about 30 Mediterranean gulls, along with large numbers of dunlins and common terns. It is the third species of American wader I have seen at Lodmoor now, after both species of dowitcher, and a pleasing, if a little drab, addition to my life list. White-rumped Sandpipers breed in northern Canada and Alaska and winter in South America, particularly Brazil, but are regular in Britain every autumn, and actually rather common in the Azores, with flocks of over 100 turning up in most years!