There was a highish tide and we went along to try for some color ring combinations on waders and darvic codes on gulls. As it turned out we didn't do well at all, only finding birds with codes that were either too far away to be read, or partially obscured or in the case of a couple of Mediterranean gulls broken and incomplete.
However, it did mean we were in the right place when a scare passage migrant was found along the shore line as we walked back.
Pectoral sandpipers bred in the arctic regions of North America and Siberia and are the most common North American wader to occur in the UK.