Where are all the birds...

This evening I headed off to the coast again, to try and catch wading birds on the rising tides. Usually around this time of year there are several hundred birds, and it's not uncommon for us to catch and ring over fifty birds! But for some reason the birds just aren't there in their number this year! So a catch of 5 Ringed Plovers and 4 Dunlin was actually quite a lot!!

One of the Dunlin caught this evening.