The very low-key start to the year continued with another samey selection from around the island: 10
Purple Sandpiper at the Bill, 2 each of
Red-throated Diver and
Common Scoter through on the sea there, 2
Firecrests and the
Yellow-browed Warbler at Church Ope Cove and 7
Great Northern Divers, 6
Black-necked Grebes and a
Slavonian Grebe in Portland Harbour.
A not so usual view of a Great Crested Grebe at Ferrybridge this morning © Pete Saunders: