Trains, boats...

...and auto-mobilesfocus were the theme of this weekend. With the family still away on holiday the world was my lobster, or at least those parts of it which could be reached without a car. Fortunately there are plenty of options locally so I took a train from Wareham to Poole, and got the first boat of the morning to the photographer's paradise of Brownsea Island. There was no sign of a White-Rumped Sandpiper reported earlier in the week but plenty of other waders including singles of Little Ringed Plover, Knot, Spotted Redshank and Avocet among the more numerous Blackwits, Oystercatchers, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Greenshank and Dunlin. Most confiding though were a couple of Common Sandpiper which flew into one of the tern islands in front of the Macdonald hide.

Common Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper

Common Sandpiper - a heavy shower provoked a lot of calling between this and the other bird

Little Egret

Greenshank

Spotted Redshank

Spotted Redshank

Red Squirrel