At the beginning of October, a very confiding Spotted Crake turned up on one of the small dragonfly pools between the Sandwich Bay bird observatory and the Restharrow scrape. it took a little while of waiting but eventually the bird came out into the open, foraging for food in amongst the pool vegetation. It was nice to see these normally shy birds at such close quarters, out in the open and under some warm Autumnal sunshine.
I returned a few days later to find the Crake still on the pool and was able to get a few more images, this time without the overhead sunshine.
I called into the hide on the Restharrow scrape before returning to the obs car park and a Little Stint was feeding on one of the nearer islands.
A very worthwhile couple of trips to the Bay.
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