The second birding group outing since resuming our trips after 2nd wave Covid was to Burton Mere Wetlands. The hides were open again but you still have to wear a mask and ones bins and scopes steam up straight away so not much fun and hard to bear for long. Anyway, we decided to head off to the Border Hide (Inner Marsh Farm hide as was) straight away before the crowds arrived (note – we were the crowd) and managed to get a couple of good wader year-ticks there, namely a single Dunlin and a pair of Curlew Sandpipers – the later, unusually, starting to get into their summer plumage so not quite as we usually see them.
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