I was having a couple of days away up on the Yorkshire East Coast, with the first stop being RSPB Bempton Cliffs, after a long summer, I decided to take no camera with me this trip, would I live to regret that.
We arrived at Bempton Cliffs at about 9am to 4°, dry and calm weather, whilst I was waiting for a friend to turn up, I had a quick look around the visitor centre feeders and dell area, seeing Tree Sparrow, Woodpigeon, plenty of Pink footed Geese, Goldfinch, Blackbird, Great Tit and Blue Tit.
Moved on then, when my friend turned up, moving onto the Nature Trail first, seeing a Barn Owl in flight first and a fine Male Stonechat, which was near to the long hedge that runs down to the cliffs, a Yellow browed Warbler had been seen, unfortunately not by us, seeing only Dunnock and Goldcrest.
The cliffs were now quiet only holding a single Great Black backed Gull, Rock Doves and still plenty of Gannets.
We moved off then and went up to Filey and onto the Brigg side, hoping to find the reported Snow Bunting, this turned out to be another bird that gave us the slip. It was also high tide so we viewed the Brigg from above, birds along the Brigg were Knot, Purple Sandpipers, Oystercatchers, Cormorants, two juvenile Common Terns with in the bay itself Shag, Great Crested Grebes, Wigeon and Eider Duck with Rock Pipits along the Brigg.
Then we had a visit down to a football field near to Filey to pick up on 2 Whooper Swans, however the highlight of the day were 12 Grey Partridge in the nearby field.
We then moved back to Bempton Cliffs hoping for some Owls and the Yellow browed Warbler, and still neither showed but a lovely female Sparrowhawk was nice to see
Bird List Bempton Cliffs : Barn Owl, Blackbird, Crow, Dunnock, Gannet, Goldfinch, Great Black backed Gull, Greylag Goose, Jackdaw, Pheasant, Pink footed Goose, Red legged Partridge, Rock Dove/Feral Pigeon, Sparrowhawk, Stonechat, Tree Sparrow, Woodpigeon Wren
Bird List Filey : Black headed Gull, Blue Tit, Common Tern, Cormorant, Eider, Great Crested Grebe, Grey Partridge, Guillemot, Herring Gull, Knot, Meadow Pipit, Purple Sandpiper, Shag, Stonechat, Tree Pipit, Whooper Swan, Wigeon, Wren
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