Petten bird reserve dunlins and avocets

On 17 March, after the geese and wigeons in the meadows around the lake in the Putten nature reserve, to the lake.

Scores of avocets.

Black-headed gulls. Lesser-blacked gulls. Common gulls.

Scores of black-tailed godwits. Redshanks.

On this photo, behind the redshank to the right, one of the black-tailed godwits has a ring around its leg.

Turnstones.

Teal swimming.

Coming quite close, a group of five dunlins, feeding.

Many curlews.

Finally, three barnacle geese flying.