Weekend Waders – Sandness, Shetland

By andrewbirds
Ringed Plover

Some photos of the waders encountered at Sandness beach, Shetland including dunlin, turnstone, ringed plover, sanderling and a bonus red-necked phalarope feeding on the shoreline.

red-necked phalarope feeding on the shoreline
red-necked phalarope
ringed plover and turnstones on a beach
ringed plover and turnstones
summer plumage sanderling on a beach
summer plumage sanderling
ringed plover on a rocky shore
ringed plover
juvenile ringed plover on a beach
juvenile ringed plover
summer plumage sanderlings feeding
sanderlings
a dunlin and a sanderling on a beach
dunlin and sanderling
a dunlin and a sanderling on a beach
dunlin and sanderling
a dunlin preening
preening dunlin
summer plumage turnstone feeding in the seaweed
foraging turnstone