GreyPlovers - Mtwapa beach, Kenya

This flock of grey plovers were mainly in their non-breeding plumage, but there are one or two visible with the strong black from face to belly of the breeding plumage. The in-flight images show the characteristic 'black axillaries, white rump and obvious wing bar ' - Birds of East Africa; Stevenson and Fanshawe. They were all having great fun up and down the beach, playing in the shallows and on the sand; allowing me to get fairly close and then almost as one lifting off into the air for another pass along the shore before landing a little further away.