Oriental Plover - Anarhynchus veredus

On Satuday 15 August 2020 10:30 Marten Peene found a strange plover between a group of Golden Plovers Pluvialus apricarius in the Noordervroon, a wetland just north of Westkapelle Zld. He warned other birders and uploaded some photographs to waarneming.nl with the message that it had disappeared with the Golden Plovers. The photographs suggested very much an Oriental Plover Anarhynchus veredus, a very rare bird in Western Europe. Birders started to look amongst several groups of Golden Plover and at c 13:00 hours Corstiaan Beeke found the bird again in a flock of Golden Plovers along the Trommelweg c 1.5 km to the east. There the bird stayed till c 18:15 hours when it flew off on its own in western direction. Next day it was gone (forever?). I heard the message at 12:00 hours and travelled with fellow city birder (and ranked number one in the Netherlands) Nick van der Ham. The trip took us three hours and we arrived at c 15:30 hours. We had to wait several long minutes before the bird made an appearance, as it sat low in a ploughed field between Golden Plovers at a distance of c 200-300 meters.