A Trip to the Seaside

I had a drive up to Flamborough yesterday to have a look for the recently reported King Eider, after a couple of hours staring at the murky north sea without any success,I decided to have a look on Filey Brigg.
I did manage to add quite a few to the year list including puffin,gannet,guillimot,fulmar,kittiwake and shag.
There were two dorks from 'out of county' on the cliff top at Flamborough making stupid remarks about Yorkshire people and Yorkshire birding.
In a way I am glad the king eider didn't show up because it made their journey completely fruitless and with their attitude, it was just deserved.
Rant over.
The brigg at Filey is not somewhere that I visit often and when I do I usually see some decent birds.Yesterday was no exception.
The purple sandpiers were quite obliging as were the commoner waders.
A shag close in was quite entetaining to watch as it fed along the wave line also a female eider was brave enough to let me get a couple of shots.
there was also a distant common scoter for good measure.
the most entertaing birds were the oystercatchers and watching them extract razorfish and mussels was fascinating.
I must make Filey Brigg a more regular venue, but thankfully it more than made up for missing the King Eider yesterday.

Two Out Of Three Aint Bad

Glaucous Gull

Glaucous Gull

Glaucous Gull

Glaucous Gull

Lesser Redpoll

Siskin

Green Winged Teal

Green Winged Teal
I went for a bit of a drive around east yorkshire today in the hope of connecting with some recently reported scarce birds.
First port of call was North cave Wetlands for the green winged teal.Once the bird was located it was relatively easy to photograph albeit it a bit distant.
On the way bak to the car I managed a couple of shots of a rather obliging siskin, then a quick look down dryden lane for a look at the resident lesser redpoll flock.
Then on to barmston for the glaucous gull.
It was about half a mile north of Barmston and quite mobile as it stayed with the other larger gulls.
It moved towards Fraisthorpe, so I headed back to the car and on to scarborough for the Iceland Gull.
Unfortunately after about an hour of looking there was no sign so I went to Holbeck for the Mediterranean Gulls.I forgot to take some bread so theye weren't very obliging.
hopefully the Iceland gull will hang around a little longer, it seems to favour the afternoons around the harbour.
Might have another trip next week.

A Mixed Bag

I managed a trip down to the Humber Estuary on Sunday morning,got there for first light and saw 3 barn owls and 2 short eared owls hunting.
No sign of any rptors but plenty of waders and ducks along with close views of hare and roe deer.
i didn't stay too long as the light was pretty poor and it had started to rain
My next port of call was North Frodingham for the re-appearance of the Bewick swans, from there I went over to Barmston in the hope of the ecently reported glaucous gull.
there was no sign whilst i was there butI did manage to see a purple sandpiper, flyover snow bunting and quite a few common waders.
I was quite pleased with my shots of the sanderling, quite obliging at high tide but almost impossible to photograph as they ran about o the sand exposed by the receeding tide.
Might go back again for these in better light.