White-Rumped Sandpiper - Blast From The Past Finds
White-Rumped Sandpiper is a pretty consistent rarity in Ireland, with frequent autumn influxes building a base for return migration birds in late Spring and Summer. I've found 3 individuals over the years, all away from the wader center of Tacumshin. October 2002 My first self found individual occurred at Rogerstown, Co. Dublin. Visiting the hide midweek with the old man, thorough scanning up and down the channel wasn't producing much, except for an interesting head which, amazingly, was popping up from behind the mud right below us. The bird walked out into the open and revealed itself to be a pristine juvenile White-Rumped Sandpiper. The bird gave excellent view for us for close to an hour, before it moved further up the channel and was lost to view. A pretty good Dublin find, if I do say so myself. Ballycotton, September 7th, 2006 My second self found bird came again on another bit of midweek sniping, taking a geologist friend of mine down to Ballycotton to photograph the ...
