A couple of weeks ago a white-rumped sandpiper spent a few days mixing with the locals down at the breaches at Kilcoole. I went down on the Sunday afternoon and as luck would have it found the bird within a couple of minutes. It was mixing with some dunlin and really was very close in, at its nearest no more than 20ft from my viewing point.
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It was very similar in size to the dunlin but really stood out from the crowd with its long body, short legged stance. However the real giveaway was the very white supercilium which no other bird present on the day could match.
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It was spooked twice along with all the other smalls in the hour or so I spent there, lifting and moving a few hundred meters in the direction of the buckthorn, but both times it made its way back to the very spot I'd first found it. Always a good day when you're eyes are on a Yankie!
