Grasshopper Warbler 1 reeling
Common Tern 10+
Ringed Plover 1
Year: 268 (Pacific Golden Plover)
The Pacific Golden Plover has been on the Jubilee Wetlands at Middleton Lakes / Drayton Bassett Pits for about a week now. We saw it very well at fairly close range, but it was a dull drizzly day and poor for photography. Below is a selection of the best I could manage. In fact the theme of the day was great birds but poor photographs, for which I can only apologise...... However it was my first PGP for 24 years, since the summer plumage adult at Pilling Marsh in July 1990. My year list currently stands at 268. This time last year I was on 218.
Pacific Golden Plover differs from European Golden Plover in a number of ways, including more extensive black (especially on the undertail coverts), longer legs and a grey underwing. It is more likely to be confused with American Golden Plover, but there are subtle differences such as primary projection and American is a greyer looking bird.
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