What is this bird please?

Spotted up at Dovestones reservoir above Oldham.

Looks like an Aeris 120. Quite rare but population is on the increase.

Too small to be a baby Robin

Louise

Have you got a link to the full res version please derek so I can zoom in? Might be a juvenile of some kind of wader – sandpiper or perhaps dotterel

Google images says

So google has given us a new taxonomy

Rocks
Soft smelly rocks
Rocks with legs that eat lettuce.

It seems like Google is operated by Bob Fossil

Bird

Try this nbt.

Plover of some sort?
Is that a black neck ring?
I’m going for Common Sandpiper

doesn;t look like that link gives anything higher resolution. best guess at the moment is a juvenile sandpiper, but that’s at about 40 to 50% confidence

I love you lot. You just made me chuckle on a grumpy morning 8)

Louise

Don’t think it’s a common shag.

bearnecessities – Member
Louise
Don’t think it’s a common shag.

😆

It seems like Google is operated by Bob Fossil

😆

juvenile little ringed plover ?

I’m pretty sure it’s a common sandpiper. The ruff is the right shape and is too broad for a ringed plover.
http://shropshirebirder.co.uk/commonsandpiper.html

Don’t be so ridiculous! What kinda made up name is that?!

Don’t be so ridiculous! What kinda made up name is that?!

Oh, OK, in that case it’s a colossal horned spunktrumpet.

Sitting on a tortoise.

Thanks scapegoat. I’ll write that in my spotting diary.

the size is hard to judge as there’s nothing to get an idea of scale, but the Little Ringed Plover is tiny compare to a sandpiper so probably too small, though the plumage is close. Glad to see I’m not the only one thinking sandpiper.

Thread hi-jack – what is this ickle one?
It ran across the track on seriously long legs and hid about half a metre off the track in front of us. On Carn Aosda, Saturday. I am thinking Curlew chick.

Carn Aosda, Carn a'Gheoidh, The Cairnwell by Matt Robinson[/url], on Flickr

I vote sandpiper. Mainly because it looks just like a sandpiper.

derek_starship – Member
Thanks scapegoat. I’ll write that in my spotting diary.

There’s a pair of them up at Cupwith, so only a valley or so away from Dovestones. You’ll hear them before you see them, sounds like someone whistling a dog.

matt_outandabout – Member
Thread hi-jack – what is this ickle one?
It ran across the track on seriously long legs and hid about half a metre off the track in front of us. On Carn Aosda, Saturday. I am thinking Curlew chick.

I reckon you’d be right, going by the location and colouring.

I was going to say rock til google beat me to it 😆

I am thinking Curlew chick.

Woodcock, of ‘Cockshoot/Cockshut/Cockshute etc Lane/Close etc’ fame.

It is a Common Sandpiper. That white notch that comes up in front of the wing is diagnostic.

Louise
Don’t think it’s a common shag.

Nothing common about that…

Yes. Common Sindpiper.

So, not a spunktrumpet then?

Amateurs. It’s a Turnstone. Can’t you tell?! That big stone it’s on. It’s just been rolled it into place. Typical nest building behaviour.