This one flew in quietly, rustled around in the seaweed for 10 minutes, then departed down channel with a 7 note farewell in the style of a Little Grebe. My Iphone did well to capture even these record shots in the dull drizzle.
Late Whimbrel at Lavernock
Glamorgan Bird Club 
Since one Lol, I presume it had a white rump?
Therin lies a problem Barry – I wasn’t able to check the rump. As it flew in it was head on to me – it didn’t move about much in the 10 minutes it was on the deck in the drizzle, and I only saw it briefly and failed to get it in focus as it called on departure. Worse still, having studied photographs of the Marazion bird in some detail, I haven’t yet found anything to exclude the possibility of the Lavernock bird having been a Hudsonian Whimbrel. I did notice it’s liking for seaweed in both sets of photographs.
Maybe I can relocate it tomorrow 🙂
I have just added another grainy shot which is the nearest I have to a rear view – it is in the gallery but I can’t see how to add it here.