Monday 2 October 2017

Which waders?


It's time for a birdy ID challenge or two. On September 22nd, Bird Watching Magazine staged a readers' day at Frampton Marsh RSPB, near Boston, Lincolnshire. The weather was fantastic, and because of the extremely high tide on The Wash, just on the far side of the sea bank, there were large numbers of waders (shorebirds, if you're American), present.

Here's a few on one of the scrapes just along from the car-park. The first person to correctly them will get a free copy of my last poetry collection, The Elephant Tests, which coincidentally contains a poem entitled At Frampton Marsh. And should that pique your interest, you can find out more about that book and about Nine Arches Press here.

2 comments:

Poetry Pleases! said...

Dear Matt

They look like Sanderlings to me. As seasoned pet-sitters, my wife Rusty and I stay in many different houses in Europe but they all seem to have at least one pair of magpies in the back garden. Is this normal or have we just been lucky?

Best wishes from Simon R Gladdish

Matt Merritt said...

Pretty normal these days - Magpies have done well in the UK especially in recent years.