I can't see many birds at the pond, mainly the running coots at the opposite shore, where the water is deeper.
I'm waiting for the birds which don't appear en masse, only one or two wood sandpipers, ruffs and spotted redshanks are coming now and then. Slowly a couple of stilts and a couple of avocets and a few black-headed gulls appear but the presence of the godwits is evident as I can hear their cry.
The two avocets marches along the pondbed regularly. One of them comes really close:
Avocet
This male ruff often chases the females which are nearby him:
Ruff (male)
Ruff (female)
One of the godwits is feeding almost on the same place all time, it doesn't want to come closer.
Suddenly a small flock of dunlins lands in the shallow water. They scour the shore section nearby back and forth regularly:
Dunlin
Dunlin
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