Making good use of dreich day Angus Hogg has written an article on the American Golden Plover that recently turned up at Maidens. This highlights the points that helped ID the bird and is the second in his series on the importance of writing descriptions and submitting records. This is the latest in a set of a longer articles you can read here. My thanks to him and Dave Grant for sending in their photos.
When the American Golden Plover turned up at Maidens on 17th October, I was confronted by that thorny problem of having to write a description. There are those among us who, for good reasons or not, prefer not to bother, in the hope that:
someone else will do the job;
lots of observers will see the bird (and that’ll make it OK); or,
My thanks go to Dave Grant, Edith and Bruce McInroy, Angus Hogg and Bruce Kerr for sending in photos for the Photo Gallery. Here are a couple to tempt you to look at the rest.
