Kentish Plover
As I was slurping my morning cuppa a Tweet came through about a female
Kentish Plover on Pitstone Quarry! My tea was nearly splattered over the wall when I read that! I quickly gathered myself and headed up to pay my first visit to the site. On arrival I joined a group of familiar and some unfamiliar faces as this site is well known for having the Bucks/Herts county border running through the middle of it and so potentially providing a tick for both counties listers. Thanks to Lee Evans for getting my scope on this hard to see bird it soon became apparent that it was in Bucks and that it had to walk towards us to be in Herts. Thankfully that's just what it did and became a Herts tick for almost everyone. This was the 4th for Herts with the last record in 1976 when I was nearly 8 months old! As for Bucks it was only the 2nd for them with the only other one was in 1981.
After my fill of the plover I popped into College Lake to see what was about and secretly hoping that the previous evenings
Greenshank was still about. Luckily it was even if it was in the far NW corner. It was sharing the corner with a
Redshank and a
Common Sandpiper. On the main marsh a
Snipe and 2
LRP were seen as well as the
Dunlin.
On Wilstone the
Black Terns had increased to 3.
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