Autumn migration

September has seen the first huge influx of migrating birds into the UK. Last weekend we were down on the east coast of Norfolk and witnessed the spectacle of waders on their high tide roosting grounds.Waders in flight create a blur across the RSPB nature reserve of Snettisham.These birds will have travelled from Arctic Canada across Greenland and down into the North Sea. It is here they will find sufficient food to survive the winter.

Mostly Oystercatchers being forced by the incoming tide off their feeding grounds.

As the incoming tide races across the mudflats the waders are denied their feeding grounds

The sunrise wakes a flock of roosting Oystercatchers

Tens of thousands of waders were present and many people had come to witness this great wildlife spectacle.

Watching the wintering birds as they fly past the hide.

And this is what these birds

An Avocet moves in-between the Godwit

 

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