Pied Wheatear

 Pied Wheatear at Meols, Cheshire. Also close views of ringtail Hen harrier on Neston Marsh and plenty of winter thrushes in the bushes

Wild Goose Chase

Managed to see 5 species of Geese today. Tundra Bean at Blackmoorfoot, 2 Eurasian White fronted geese at Ingbirchworth  plus Pink foot at both sites and Greylag and Canada at the latter. Also a large flock of Brambling at Ingbirchworth and plenty of Fieldfare in the field with a few Tree Sparrow and Yellowhammer

                                                   

                                                  

Stonechat

Went to Flamborough Head today in hope of rare migrants. No luck! Goldcrest Willow Warbler Redwing Peregrine Kestrel Gannet Fulmar Stonechat and that was it

Red Breasted Flycatcher and Yellow Browed Warbler

Quick dash to Flamborough this afternoon proved very fruitful. On the way we saw a slim winged buzzard with bright white rump from the car. Boom!! Rough-Legged Buzzard.
 At Flamborough in the Old Plantation we were quickly onto the Yellow Browed Warbler. Also present were several Redwing and Fieldfare feeding on berries. Several Brambling were also present with flocks of feeding Long tailed Tits and Goldcrest. Best of all though was the sudden appearance of a Red Breasted Flycatcher. Boom!!

Spurn visit 13/1/11

Myself and Dave Evans had a great day's birding at Spurn on Sunday 13th. November with great weather and some cracking views of Woodlark and Great Grey Shrike. We just missed out on a Dusky Warbler that was seen at the point earlier that day. It was trapped the following day. In total we saw 60 species.

Spurn Head and North Lincolnshire

Had a great day firstly at Spurn. It was relatively quiet due to southerly winds but redeemed itself with a fabulous female Black Redstart.

We also had good views of grey plover, redshank, bar tailed godwit, sanderling, curlew and knot. Other highlights were a great skua and lots of dark bellied brent geese.

We then went onto Far Ings just over the Humber Bridge to see the Ferruginous Duck and were told at the visitor's centre that it hadnt shown today. However, the Gods were with us and we had good views in a pool next to the visitors centre before it skulked off into the reeds!

We then went off to Worlaby Carrs where a rough legged buzzard has been seen the last few days as well as hen harriers and up to 8 short eared owls. We stared at the skies for 2 hours but it was a no show regarding the rough legged buzzard. We did see plenty of common buzzard, hunderds of fieldfare and large numbers of geese flying over, probably pink footed geese. As the light faded we at last enjoyed a great show of at least 4 short eared owls hunting.