Christmas day's trip to the coast turned out to be so enjoyable that we decided to do it all over again on Boxing Day - but this time to Seaburn, just north of Sunderland. The rainbow turned out to be a good omen. At the north end of the beach we found this...
..bar-tailed godwit following the waves in and out with a flock of sanderling...
...probling the sand along the tideline before..
...flying off to ....
... perch on a rock for a preen..and then ....
... pause again for a moment's reflection. Smaller waders included...
...sanderling...
...dunlin...
...knot...and plenty of ....
... ringed plover, with those fake tan orange legs.
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