Bempton Circular Walk (Some of the Birds)

 

Puffins

My main aim this morning was to capture the sunrise, which is the subject of a previous blog page. Of course, you cannot not take images of the birds, although I had a few issues with settings. All of the breeding seabirds are present, in good numbers, on the ledges, on the sea and in flight. Just after sunrise, a Barn Owl and Short-eared Owl hunted the cliff top fields. Best birds for me were a distant Wheatear on the ploughed field off Hoddy Cows Lane and four Snipe on Buckton Pond, both being year ticks.

Puffins

Fulmar

Kittiwakes

Razorbills

Razorbills with Guillemot

Guillemots

Gannets

Distant Short-eared Owl

Skylark

Common Snipe (one of four)

Coot with leucism

Squabbling Starlings

Images taken handheld with Sony RX10 mk4.