Lesser_yellowlegs_bunche_beach_(31791842132) Russ, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The lesser yellowlegs has been frequenting the far side of Marshside, right next to Glencoyne Drive, so it should be an easy ‘tick’, and so it proves to be: I climb the short but muddy slope to the path along the marsh, raise my binoculars to my eyes, and there it is. Bingo! It’s a medium-sized wader, with pale grey and white plumage, and long legs, which are an astonishing, egg-yolk yellow. It feeds nonchalantly a few metres away for a while and then flies, showing its startling white rump, a little further away. Continue reading
