Redshank

Wow... Lars..we like to know your observation at Redshank...may need some time..but add later..may find its habitat remote and away from disturbed area.

Yes, I should have been a bit clearer! If we had Gallinules in my area they'd probably be found around the smartweeds.

Scott...your information may confirmed my experience was with a Moorhen.. Virginia rail is in same Rallidae family like Moorhen..!! That Redshank belt was in less disturbed rural area.

OK..Scott...thanks for sharing info..!!

Moorhens aren't really found in my area, and the only plover relative that's common is the Killdeer. I do occasionally see Virginia Rails in that habitat, but Persicaria mostly grows in disturbed areas that are more likely to harbor Red-winged Blackbirds and water snakes.

Scott...you must see Lapwing or Moorhens in such weeds...there....just want to know my experience was not wrong...

Here in the U.S. where it's introduced, it's common in ditches and disturbed wetlands and can be extremely weedy.

Its Redshank, find it in my collection also. In remote places and density of such plants there is habitat of Moorhens.

That's a smartweed. They were formerly all lumped into the genus Polygonum, but have since been reclassified into different genera. I don't know much about European smartweeds, but if the leaves have a brownish spot on them it's likely to be Persicaria maculosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshank_%28plant%29)