We saw some Avocets! Sadly my camera is not really up to the job when it comes to birds in flight. I'm thinking next time it's time to buy a camera, I might go for a superzoom one again for a change: I like being able to use my legacy non-digital lenses, but they aren't a lot of good for this sort of thing. On the other hand, at some point I am inevitably going to drop the camera into the drink, and sod's law says that will happen as soon as I start thinking new-camera thoughts...
We left the avocets behind and headed up a creek. This was a few minutes before a pair of red deer took off on the bank in front of the canoe and went bounding excitably away. No photo of that: I had put the camera down.
We tried to drift back quietly past the mudbanks...
But we were spotted! I think these were mostly sandpipers.
They wheeled around us and I think went back to their mudflat afterwards.
