Purple sandpipers, red knot, eider duck

This video is about birds on and near the IJmuiden jetty.

As I wrote earlier, on 14 April I was on the IJmuiden jetty.

A feral domestic pigeon sitting on a rock. Maybe a storm blew it here from England?

Near the end of the pier, we see our first purple sandpipers.

There is a red knot as well.

This red knot is not yet red, as it is still in mostly greyish and white winter plumage.

A male eider duck swims close to the pier.

Further away, a velvet scoter swims in the harbour.

As we walk back, a whimbrel.

A migrating sand martin flying.

A great cormorant.

At the parking lot, a male northern wheatear sitting on a stump.

Rottumerplaat eider ducks: here.

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