We shouldn't have complained about too much samey weather just lately as today we were on the receiving end of the pay-back - 12 hour and counting of heavy rain! What birding was possible for a few hours from dawn revealed an island all but bereft of grounded arrivals, with no more than 2 Wheatears and singles of Reed Warbler and Spotted Flycatcher at the Bill and 3 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Grey Plover and a Knot at Ferrybridge; of local interest, the Alexandrine Parakeet was in gardens at Southwell during the morning - having obviously returned from its jaunt way out to sea last evening. A Hobby, as well as a few Swifts and hirundines, made it through overhead before the rain put the block on further diurnal passage. Two Red-throated Divers and singles of Pomarine and Arctic Skua also passed by Chesil and the Bill ahead of the rain.
