Waders at Blacktoft

 July 17th was my last spell of duty at Blacktoft, it was a quiet day visitor wise, possibly because of the heat and the start of the school summer holidays. This enabled me to give Stu a hand with a couple of jobs, including pumping water onto Marshland lagoon. Over the weekend the high tides were the highest of the month and had deposited some water into the feeder ditch. This allows the team to transfer water into the lagoons, and as the recently arrived waders had chosen Marshland, Stu was topping up the water level.

Black tailed godwits, snipe, greenshank, little ringed plover were some of the waders on the lagoon. Others were redshank, ruff , lapwing and green sandpiper. Juvenile beardies were busily feeding on the insects they found on the mud at the bottom of the reeds.

 

One of the young magpies likes to pop in and say hello to visitors in the First hide. 

Not sure if I will get to Blacktoft before the end of the month, so it will be interesting to see what has changed.