Longham in Dreamland

Sunday 2nd December 2012 What’s happened to this local patch? Normally good but unspectacular, it has hosted White-rumped Sandpiper and Glossy Ibis today. The White-rumped Sand played to a reasonable gallery of birders for most of the day, while in the morning...

American Wader Touches Down

1st December 2012 Not content with finding Longham Lakes’s first Kittiwake this week, Lorne Bissell has triumped with the discovery of a much rarer bird, a White-rumped Sandpiper. This is the second American vagrant on the site after last year’s...

White-rumped Sandpiper at Longham Lakes

1st December 2012 Lorne Bissell has, remarkably, found a second new bird in a week for Longham Lakes. This time it’s a real rarity, a White-rumped Sandpiper, from the USA. Could anyone visiting Longham Lakes today please park at the Bridge House Hotel or Haskins...