In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found,
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
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@mjthom.bsky.social

Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning.
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Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social
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Calm sea off Skipsea

End of the Ulrome Road East Yorkshire

Skipsea to Ulrome this mild morning.
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social

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Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire.
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
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Black redstart f. On boat ramp

A day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social that didn't quite go to script. No dusky but woodcock over whalebone bridge, c scoter & a black redstart at S Landing.
Seawatching pm
Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent.
Leach's petrel great views slowly north
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Brent goose

Brent swimming & redshank photo bombing

Skeffling/ Weeton Outstrays @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Merlin chasing dunlin, blackwits, avocet, curlew, grey & golden plover, Knot, lapwing, Whooper swans 6, l egret, heron, fieldfares Redwing, kestrel, buzzard and these Brent geese
@mjthom.bsky.social

Slavonian & black-necked grebe

Enjoyable but windy day, started at Skipsea nice covey of 14 grey partridge, stonechat & skylarks.
Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off

Black tern @northcavewet.bsky.social this morning @rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social

Great day at a grey South Landing @flamboroughbird.bsky.social .
💯s of Redwing, blackbirds and a few fieldfare over.
Highlights at least 3 yellow-browed warblers, one joined Long-t tits to annoy this sleepy tawny owl. & Goldcrest, Rb merganser scoter, grey plover, dunlin, turnstone & rock pipit.

7 swans, not a swimming

Turned out the sign had been re-purposed😄, the other side warned of nesting swans by Pocklington canal. They are all grown up now

Meanwhile in #Yorkshire
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Pectoral sandpiper on a sandbar flanked by gulls

Stonechat on a post

Beacon ponds pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, cr plover, sanderling, knott, redshank, merlin & late swallow
Drama when a sparrowhawk picked off a dunlin from the flock dropping it grabbing it out the water, only for it to escape & fly off. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
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Pectoral sandpiper on a sandbar flanked by gulls

Stonechat on a post

Beacon ponds pectoral sandpiper, dunlin, cr plover, sanderling, knott, redshank, merlin & late swallow
Drama when a sparrowhawk picked off a dunlin from the flock dropping it grabbing it out the water, only for it to escape & fly off. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social
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Pectoral sandpiper Beacon ponds #spurnbirds. Dunlin, Knot, sanderling merlin & a Swallow
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Nice to see you again Mark.

What a fantastic bird, white-throated needletail at Scarborough Castle this morning, from Marine drive. After not finding it at Filey, thanks to the (re)-finder.
No pic can justify this true mega, these certainly don't 😅.
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On the East Yorkshire coast of England at Flamborough Head.

Migrants across @flamboroughbird.bsky.social dozens of Goldcrest, wheatear, lesser whitethroat & redstart old fall hedge.
South Landing more crests, chiffchaff, blackcap and big mixed tit flock.
Red throated divers and dolphins at sea.
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Spotted flycatcher in a shadey tree

Whinchat on the clifftop

This afternoon @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social Spotted flycatcher 2, whinchat, chiffchaffs, willow warbler, Goldcrest & treesparrows.
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Juv curlew sandpiper Singleton

Spotted redshank

Greenshank

Ruff

Red crested pochard, kingfisher, green woodpecker common sandpiper, 2 late swift @northcavewet.bsky.social
@rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social curlew sandpiper j. Ruff, snipe, spot red, greenshank, greensand, great egrets, w rail, beardies y wag & m harrier
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#SeawatchFestival @flamboroughbird.bsky.social
Highlights Arctic skuas mainly south & chasing sandwich, com terns & little gulls.
Peregrine & marsh harrier, Waders turnstone & teal s.
Com scoter 2 N.
Wheatear provided only reasonable photo.
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#spurnbirds
Lots of lesser & common whitethroat at Sammys.
Whimbrel on the Humber + dunlin, ringed plover & golden plover. Distant little stint at a quiet beacon ponds. 'They grow up so quick' avocet chick.
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Pectoral sandpiper Alkborough flats Nikon P1000

Ruff juv & lapwing

Sparrowhawk on edge of reeds phonescoped

Quality #waders @lincsbirding.bsky.social @Alkborough:
Pectoral sandpiper, spot red, greenshank, dunlin, ruff, water rail, avocet, lapwings all spooked by a big female sparrowhawk on the deck far edge reeds -never seen that. Pics of pectoral Wednesday @mjthom.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social

Oh dear, there were 2 avocet chicks there yesterday 🙄

White-rumped sandpiper showing its long primaries

Curlew sandpiper with common terns

White-rumped sandpiper

1 of2 avocet chicks, second brood?

White-rumped sandpiper curlew sandpiper & Knot new for year. Great views but heat haze not helped at v warm Beackon ponds.
Lots of common, sandwich & littleterns. Whitethroat & w warblers @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social