Post Script- how to herd waders.......?

After yesterday's exciting events-lots of birds and a shopping trip abroad (Finland), we managed to ring 1 Waxwing out of the small flocks of these birds flying around. We are hoping that we will catch more as the trip goes on and they get used to our water drip which we have set up.
Unfortunately Colin's attempts at predicting the tide times were up to his usual standard and we missed the rising tide completely. However your ever resourceful team got their act together and tried herding waders along the shoreline to our waiting nets. Crawling on all fours making a moo-ing noise really helped even though the men in the white coats were waiting when we finished ( see photo)

 Our final total was  20 birds of which 12 were Dunlin, 6 were Little Stint and 2 Ringed Plover.
I am writing this at lunchtime after our early morning ringing session on Friday --very exciting--see later post for details......!!
If you want a sneek preview check out Anders' facebook page

Cheers Colin