| During a night watch, while the male godwits were incubating, it was noted that the females stood sleeping on the poles with their bills tucked backwards in their mantles. |
| Last week saw a big arrival of waders in the region, notably Black-tailed Godwits returning from Iceland. |
| And 80 percent of black-tailed godwits, refined birds with brown slender bodies and long beaks, call the Dutch polder home. |
| Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south. |
| Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall. |
| There were 29 Hudsonian godwits, several whimbrels, 2 dunlins, greater shearwaters and black tern. |
