Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Davidstow

I eventually caught up with this first year Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Davidstow.  This is my fifth visit this autumn with the intention of seeing this bird though it, and/or others, are never there when I'm there.  That said, there is always a good chance of finding waders here so no visit is wasted.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper breeds in nothern Canada and Alaska and winters in Argentina in the pampas grasslands.  They are annual visitors to Cornwall and hardly a blank year goes by. This autumn there has been records from all over Europe so there must have been a job-lot displaced whilst migrating south from their breeding grounds.