Mondays Fling.

My short visit to the ranges this week started with a 'fling' the collective noun for a group of Whimbrel feeding amongst the Dandelions and long grasses behind the target butts. On the point a Cuckoo was doing a recce for the next potential foster parents nest. But with the gusty wind blowing hard most of the birds such as this Sedge Warbler where keeping low in the reed bed. My migrant highlight of the day was a group of 5 Swifts hawking the marsh my first for the year.

 

Surf n Sewage.

                                                 Whimbrel walking in the morning surf.

 Black-Winged Stilts at Kotu sewage pits.