Quote Originally Posted by cyclops View Post
lots of swallows and swifts around Glossop, and I think I saw a a few sandpipers on Featherbed Moss, Snake summit on saturday. was so focused on it having a beak that definitely wasn't a curlew that its colours slipped from mind. definitely a longer beak than a golden plover.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/bir.../name/s/snipe/

probably a snipe. I've seen a few around there in recent weeks.

I was up teaching a Nav course on Bleaklow today, burnt and blown dry, lots of Cloudberry plants in flower, curlews and golden plover were every where. Surprising dry up there.