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Saturday, 22 August 2020

Curlew Sandpiper at Rough Point

Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper, Rough Point, 27th August 2020 (Michael O'Clery).
 
If not THE first, certainly one of the first Curlew Sandpipers reported in the south of Ireland this autumn.
 
Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper, Rough Point, 27th August 2020 (Michael O'Clery).

Juvenile Knot, Rough Point, 27th August 2020 (Michael O'Clery).
 
Sharing the same beach, another juvenile wader, recently travelled from well north of the Arctic Circle.