Dec 062021
On 1st November I decided to pay another visit to the RSPB reserve at Blacktoft Sands, in Yorkshire. The White-tailed Plover was still being faithful to the site and seemed to have lost its will to migrate.
On the 1st November it performed very well in front of the Xerox Hide, allowing me to obtain some of the best photographs I’ve been able to take of this vagrant wader from eastern Europe. I had only seen one previous White-tailed Plover in Britain, a bird that was found at Caerleverock, Dumfries & Galloway in 2007.
As I write this post, it was still present on 3rd December, but no sign on the 5th & 6th December having arrived in August. So maybe finally it has decided to move on having spent just over 4 months at Blacktoft.
