A miscellaneous selection to report today with early autumn migrants featuring quite well. Ferrybridge provided the best of the numbers that included 238
Mediterranean Gulls, 6
Curlew, 3
Whimbrel, 3
Dunlin, 2
Black-tailed Godwits and a
Sanderling, as well as the
Little Gull for a second day. At the Bill new arrivals included 4
Redshank, 2
Sedge Warblers and singles of
Ringed Plover,
Whimbrel,
Great Spotted Woodpecker and
Reed Warbler, with 50
Manx Shearwaters, 10
Balearic Shearwaters, 5
Common Scoter, a
Shoveler and
Great Skua through on the sea.
It was a lovely morning to sit and wait for photo opportunities at Ferrybridge and Black-tailed Godwit and Little Gull both obliged © Debby Saunders:
Longleaf (or Sickleweed) Falcaria vulgaris is a naturalised alien first introduced to Britain as a garden plant in the 18th century. The Flora of Dorset notes just three sites in the county of which two are at Portland - whether one of them is near Wallsend where the plant was quite numerous today isn't entirely clear © James Phillips:
