Little Auks!

Brilliant day on the East coast with several Little Auk heading North sea watching from Hartlepool. Other highlights were a close by Little Auk in the bay which was too quick for my camera and lots of Purple Sandpiper. We then headed to Scarborough where there were several Little Auk in the harbour and a couple of Black necked grebe

Golden Pheasant

What a day spent yesterday in Norfolk and Suffolk. First off was a Golden Pheasant at the Wolferton Triangle. We bagged Red-legged  and Grey Partridge from the car. Then onto the coast where we failed to pick up a rough-legged buzzard at Burnham Overy Staithe and also failed to see the Shorelark seen recently at Salthouse. We did see however 25 Snow Buntings on the shingle.
We then headed south to Dunwich Heath where we were quickly onto 2 Dartford Warblers although we were hampered by the cold fog which made photography impossible. Lifers for me and Dave. We finished off at Waveney Forest and had cracking close views of a Rough-legged Buzzard flying past despite the dense fog.

Skua and Shearwater boat trip

Yesterday myself and Dave Evans went to Bridlington and had a very decent morning out at sea. We saw Purple Sandpipers in the harbour before setting off and I photopgraphed a very tame Turnstone on the harbour wall. On the boat we had close encounters with Red-throated Diver, Common Scoter, Eider, Arctic Skua, Great Skua, Common Guillemot, Puffin, Razorbill, Manx Shearwater, Sooty Shearwater, Kittiwake, Arctic Tern, Gannet and Fulmar. The pictures came out a lot better than I expected in difficult rocky conditions on the boat.