The excavation of sand and gravel at Packington, Warwickshire, has created a system of freshwater pools which regulärly attracts migrating waders. At 13.30 GMT on I2th July 1975, JEF, Mrs E. Green and EGP were searching the area for migrants when a medium-sized wader of remarkable appearance fiew past them and landed on an area of thinly vegetated sand and shingle about 30m ahead. In flight, a st

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