Lesser Whitethroat
With an hour or so to spare, while waiting for Heather, I had a walk around South Landing Flamborough. Sometimes I think I am on another planet! Where I am, the birds are not! Even when birds are reported in the area I am looking, I fail to see them! Today was one of those days with good numbers of Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts and a Wryneck. I actually saw a flight view of a male Redstart (year tick)! At least one of the numerous Lesser Whitethroats obliged -
I was pleased to capture a very obliging Wall Butterfly on the nature trail
And a female Common Blue while looking for the Wryneck!
Picking up Heather, we headed out to Hornsea to visit the freeport, but not until we had consumed a fish and chip lunch on Hornsea sea front. Retail therapy completed, it was off to Hornsea Mere. Standing on Kirkholm Point, it was a case of scoping birds as everything of interest was distant, very distant! A Yorkshire tick for me in the form of two Black Terns, year ticks of Common Terns and Marsh Harriers. Couldn't locate the three reported Garganeys.
Final trip of the day involved an early evening visit to Flamborough Head to scope view a distant Woodchat Shrike in the gorse field! Enjoyed the bird for about thirty minutes before it dropped out of sight, probably going to roost. Another Yorkshire tick for me!
Overall, not a bad day birding but it could have been a lot better!
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