Here are a few photos I took of a Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) at the Gannel Estuary, Newquay, Cornwall.
The Baird's Sandpiper is a rare migrant visitor to UK shores, they breed in the Arctic from eastern Siberia, Alaska and Greenland. They migrate through North America and Winter in South America.
Map showing range of Baird's Sandpiper(Wikimedia, Commons)
I spotted this bird back in September 2016 when I began to take more of an interest in bird watching and used a local bird sightings group website to ID the bird.
The Bird was looking for food in the sand, and you could get quite close without spooking, I was about 10ft away.
