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Four dotterel on Pendle Hill. Saturday 10th May 2014.
1 female and 3 males.
A wet and windy day but worth the effort.
Earlier, climbed Fair Snape Fell but no dotterel about. Two birds near the summit, behaving just like dotterel, turned out to be a ringed plover and a dunlin. Not shy birds, I sat within 4 metres of them for half an hour.

Music by Zero 7

The Eurasian Dotterel, or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It breeds in the Arctic tundra of northern Eurasia, from Norway to eastern Siberia, and on suitable mountain plateaus such as the Scottish highlands and the Alps. It nests in a bare ground scrape and lays two to four eggs.

This species is migratory, wintering in a narrow belt across north Africa from Morocco eastwards to Iran. Migration stopovers are traditional, and small parties (trips) of Dotterels pass through each year at these usually inland arable or grassy sites. The winter habitat is semi-desert.