Wild Flowers and Vids

Myself and my birder's wife had some business to attend to along with a visit to Ikea this morning and decided to do all that after a quick visit to Brandon to buy some wild flowers and view the newly arrived Wood Sandpiper.  We managed to squeeze into the Teal hide and immediately spotted the Sandpiper on the mud to the right of the hide.  These type of Sandpipers are one of my favourites and I therefore, before leaving home made sure I was well prepared for the visit by packing my digiscoping equipment and took the opportunity to try out video digiscoping the bird - a bit shaky and over exposed but not too bad for the first effort.   A quick visit to East Marsh hide provided close views of the Lapwing chicks and the Red Crested Pochard pair busy feeding.  On the way out, we purchased our wild flowers for our garden and had a coffee and slice of cake in the tearrooms, where the catering is excellent at the moment, especially the breakfasts.