Sanderling Calidris alba

Dorney Lake  - 14th May 2007

Photos supplied by Jim Rose

This individual was seen on the return lake at Dorney Lake along with two Temminck's Stints. 

Willen Lake  - 14th May 2004

Photos supplied by Ashley Beolens

This individual is resting on a "sausage", the local nickname for the rafts of herbage which are used to reduce blue-green algae.  Rather amusingly a report in the Email group saying the the "Sanderling was feeding on sausages" was repeated by one of the national bird information services! 
To view a graph of Sanderling records in Buckinghamshire  click here.