With the rain having finally relented some time in the early hours of the morning there was a little more life about than yesterday. The Bill saw a small movement of thrushes with double figures of
Song Thrushes and
Redwings plus a pair of
Fieldfares in the Top Fields. The finches also put in a good display with the
Serin being resighted and a
Brambling among the
Chaffinch flock. Wader-wise the flock of lingering
Lapwings were still in the East Cliffs fields accompanied by a
Jack Snipe in the huts. The sea was also back on form with a very late
Manx Shearwater, a lone
Velvet Scoter, 5
Common Scoter, 2
Red-
throated Divers and a selection of gulls.
The
Little Gull (that one us may or may not have forgotten to report yesterday-sorry!) was back at the Harbour accompanied by a
Slavonian Grebe, 4
Black-
necked Grebes and a fly-over
Curlew. Ferrybridge was also productive with a drake
Goosander, 150
Dunlin, 1
Bar-
tailed Godwit, 2
Redshank and a
Sandwich Tern.
The adult Little Gull arrived below Portland Castle at 0710 this morning with just enough light to produce some pretty impressive pictures © Debby Saunders:
The long staying drake Goosander at Ferrybridge © Debby Saunders:
