Buff-breasted sandpiper

It may just look like a mud-coloured blob, but finding this bird in a field at White Nothe (above Ringstead Bay) is my proudest birding achievement since moving to Dorset. These birds breed in the arctic tundra of Canada and occasionally get blown across the Atlantic, usually turing up on an airfield in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. Strangely, White Nothe in Dorset has turned up four of these birds in the last 25 years and so I wasn't totally surprised when I stumbled upon it. There will be better photographs by the serious bird photographers but this - the best I can do with my equipment - does show how the bird looked through binoculars.