It is late and I am tired so I am going to keep it brief today and just concentrate on the wader action. Above shows you the view from the tip of the eastern point of the gravel plains spit where I spent most of the day today. The water levels are rising fast and this is due to the snow melt. This is creating good feeding area's for waders but not good nesting area's as some of the previous year's territories are now under water. Below 3 photo's are of 3 different Red necked Stint's which were part of a group of 30+ birds present today,also a single Little Stint.
There was a definite increase in numbers of migrant wader's today and Turnstone ( 2 photo's below) peaked at 190+, Dunlin (above) were in the highest numbers so far with at least 30 present today and they were quite often giving part display song and flight. 
Bar Tailed Godwit's (above) peaked at seven, the single Western Sandpiper was giving a full display flight and song several times whilst in amongst the Red necked Stint's. A cracking Grey tailed Tattler (below) was present and this is only the 3rd time I have seen this species after the Burg Head, Scotland individual back in 94 and also a group of 6 birds present in a bay in Sydney, Australia 2005/6. A single but stunning Red Phalarope showed in amongst the Red necked Phalaropes and was only the 2nd of the trip so far. After dinner this evening it was back out for a quick search of the floods which was pretty uneventful bar a single Red necked Phalarope but the 2nd Mongolian plover nest contained the male incubationg as we drove past on the quad bike. The local "Chukchi" race of peopel are starting to venture out more now that the weather is improving and they can seen on all manor of transportation (photo below) and they are also starting to camp out more along the rivers and I suspect it won't be much longer before the Salmon run will start. 
