The local breeding population of Peregrines has fared really poorly this year with several sites either unoccupied or deserted during the course of the breeding season; this independent juvenile over Ferrybridge this morning is one of the few sightings of a youngster in recent weeks and, plausibly, by this time in the autumn might not even be a locally-raised bird © Pete Saunders:
19th August
With Storm Betty itself a rather brief affair confined to the hours of darkness dawn broke surprisingly brightly and with a well below gale force southwesterly blowing. Two more Cory's Shearwaters through off the Bill during the morning were a welcome result of the storm's passing but sea action was otherwise confined to not much more than 8 Manx Shearwaters, 6 Arctic Skuas, a Balearic Shearwater and a Sooty Shearwater passing the Bill and 2 Arctic Skuas and singles of Balearic Shearwater, Grey Plover, Little Gull and Arctic Tern through at Chesil Cove. A stir-up in wader situation was to have been expected but at Ferrybridge consisted of little more than increases to 120 Ringed Plover, 120 Dunlin, 16 Redshank, 13 Turnstones and 3 Common Sandpipers; 2 Mute Swans were also there. Passerines looked to have sat out the storm, with a single Pied Flycatcher the pick of a sparsely spread and not at all varied selection of grounded arrivals at the Bill.