On many of our trips we often get and amuse ourselves by saying with a bit of a smirk ‘we always save the best for last’. That’s not quite true as we had that amazing Black-eared Wheatear when we were still up Monnegre.
Having left Bryan at home we stopped at ‘The Stones’ and checked on the water opposite. There were no Curlew Sands but two waders that I thought were Greenshanks were not. Looking at them and even when photographed their legs looked greenish! I should have looked more and seen more. The bill was wrong for one thing and it appears they were Ruff - Combatiente (Calidris Pugnax). I looked at the RSPB and Wildlife Trusts sites and it was useful. However the legs, it is said, range from orange, pink and yellow. Next time I will look harder.
Ruff Photograph by Gareth Davies
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