Day: May 4, 2016

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A Band of Banded Stilts. Evening in the sunshine

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They walked and fed quite rapidly and passed back and forth by my position
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With Black-tailded Godwits.
Time for a bit of a preen
They lined up and took a 15 minute powernap from the busy work
A great time to tidy up the feathers

I wonder what the collective noun for Stilts is?    Decided that it might be, in this case with Banded Stilts,  well, Band of.

So we spent an evening with a Band of Brothers. On one of the ponds at the T Section at the Treatment Plant we found the Band working very quickly through the water. I settled down in the grass on the water’s edge and was able to have them feed up quite close, and without being distressed at my presence.

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