Come Sunday - Duke Ellington

 With the Government Guidelines concerning Covid being so ambiguous there is a good chance of being Damned if You Do or Damned if You Don't that's why we search for common sense and do it  Our Way! It was about time for another Sunday off-piste and what better than to circumnavigate the

'second largest' Natural Harbour in the World - that of Poole, Dorset. 

A 'must' in checking the tides showed that with Low Water at 08:30 by the time we arrived the Waterfowl should be closing to shallower water and the Wading birds on closer shore-lines.

However, while browsing something else came to my attention, finding that since Sydney, Australia has reclaimed so much land from its own harbour, once the biggest in the world, Poole now owns that claim to fame! Live and Learn! We wont go into the in's and out's of locations only to say that starting at Sandbanks Road leading to the Chain Ferry to the east that is where our search began with a few

DUNLIN

on the foreshore along with

DARK-BELLIED BRENT GEESE
and a most unexpected

GREY PLOVER

which we don't remember ever having seen at this location before?
Over the Chain Ferry we were also lucky to see the

PURPLE SANDPIPER
and continuing clockwise around the harbour we soon found a few

RINGED PLOVER
and

GREATER SCAUP

that was so far away we have fielded an archive shot.

A few

AVOCET

around the western rim along with

CURLEW

in the adjoining fields with Best Saved Until Last.

MARSH TIT
(long time extinct on our own patch)
serched for as we crossed the small hump-backed bridge at Norden.