OK only one young American in this post, but 3 good yankee waders to liven up the marshes. A long staying Stilt Sandpiper beckoned for an afternoon picnic trip at Frampton. It was my first visit here and I left impressed. It was a version of Titchwell, Blacktoft Sands and the Scrape at Minsmere rolled into one. In addition to the Stilt Sandpiper, a Long-billed Dowitcher showed at ludicrously close range but into the light so tricky for photos. Listen to the machine gun fire from the photographers on the Dowitcher clip, you can turn that sound off you know and I did share that nugget with the assembled lens heads - much to their disdain.
The following weekend a juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper hung out on the newly landscaped scrape in front of Welches Dam hide on the Ouse Washes. It was a tricky bird mostly hiding and picking between clumps of vegetation.
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