With passerine migration grinding to a halt in the face of increasingly turbulent conditions it was hoped that the sea might save the day, but 41 Balearic Shearwaters, 3 Arctic Skuas and a handful of routines off the Bill weren't really the sort of rewards to get pulses racing. The few passerines that were uncovered included singles of Reed Warbler, Firecrest and Siskin at the Bill, whilst waders didn't fare much better with 4 Knot and a Sanderling as good as it got at Ferrybridge.
After a couple of summers of unrelenting and often wholly unexpected rewards from the sea this year has thus far proved to be hugely disappointing, with even the old staples such as Balearic Shearwaters no better than sparse and erratic off the Bill; however, there's still plenty of time for our fortunes to change...© Martin Cade:
Receiving this trailcam photo of a Badger visiting a garden at Southwell a couple of nights ago (© Alan Mayell) reminded us that we hadn't made any recent efforts to ascertain whether there were still Badgers in the Obs garden after they'd successfully bred there earlier in the year...
...so it was a bit of a surprise having not had the slightest indication they were still about to find the trailcam here revealed the presence of several visiting some seed put out for them last night © Jodie Henderson:
