PIPP's FORD 29/08/2016

Had time on my hands this bank holiday so I decided to bike on over to Pipp's Ford to look for some migrant waders. This is an area of working and restored quarry along the river Gipping. It reminds me a bit of COLLEGE LAKE, a nature reserve where I started birdwatching many years ago.

 

The footpath cuts the area in two with the restored pit to the south and the working pit to the north. At the end of this the path goes north up the river and then does a circuit of the site. This is an up and coming site, and will be a good one for inland Suffolk
There was a decent wader passage with LITTLE STINT, LITTLE RINGED PLOVER and 2 COMMON SANDPIPER, on the working pit, whilst a GREENSHANK was on the restored pit.
The river by Pipp's Ford lock is a good place for KINGFISHER, and I saw some and heard more.

 

 

Pipp's Ford Lock River Gipping