I had another trip to Spurn this weekend.
The main point of the trip was to take one of the Spurn Lockdown Auction winners around for some insights into photography at Spurn.
It was a nice day and hopefully the 3 enthusiastic participants took something from the day-I certainly enjoyed it.
The wind put a bit of a dampener on it, though and kept many of the birds hunkered down in the bushes.
One group of birds that are usually quite obliging at this time of year are the waders. Mostly common ones yesterday but a juvenile little stint was also nice to see.
I started off just south of the Warren-I got next to a small bit of cliff which served both as a windbrake and also hid my profile from the horizon.
I didn’t have to wait long before a small party of ringed plovers landed nearby followed quickly by some nice grey plover and then dunlin and sanderling.
I noticed some huge flocks whizzing about just near the breach and then it became apparent why. Two chaps with cameras had walked down just as it was reaching high tide then appeared to be walking through the flocks causing obvious and unnecessary disturbance.
In my view, the world is made up of two different types of people-those who ‘get’ wildlife disturbance and those who don’t. Clearly these two fell into the latter category. What I find disappointing is that people who purport to show an interest in wildlife (and therefore should know better) still carry on with disturbing whatever they are looking at. It could easily have been two birders-it happens, but for people who go to an internationally protected area in pursuit of wildlife photography and then disturb the birds which will be getting much needed rest from their journey from the arctic, its a poor show.
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Grey plover
Waders at high tide
Waders at high tide
Waders at high tide
Waders at high tide
Waders at high tide
Dunlin
Redshank
Redshank
Redshank
Curlew
Curlew
Curlew
Curlew
Redshank
Dunlin
Little Stint