A lovely bright and still morning so I went up to Wraik Hill hoping for nightingales, none singing but a willow warbler, blackcap and chiffs on the top of the hill but no nightingale. Couldn't hear any on Foxes Cross Hill slope but a call later from GB alerted me to return as he had now heard one in song which I heard from the car! Down at the seafront there were quite a few sedge warblers, chiffs plus a whitethroat and a couple of stonechats. Brian Watmough recorded a white-spotted bluethroat on the LNR early morning.
14th
Another sunny day where I walked along the LNR hoping for yesterday's WS bluethroat but no luck, instead, 1 swallow, 2 house martins and a wheatear. Back at the NRA and 'island' 16 ringed plovers and 1 dunlin (first this month).
15th
Today, loads of sedge warblers but couldn't hear a reed warbler (maybe the ears) however, I clearly heard several reels of one or perhaps two grasshopper warblers. Also, 4 cetti's, 1 marsh harrier, whitethroat, 5 swallows, a couple of blackcaps and a cuckoo, my first this year. Out on the sea 2 lesser black-backed gulls and two grebes in courtship. By the YC 2 Sandwich and one common tern and by the huts 2 wheatears, a dozen plus linnets and goldfinches. Nice to hear all the skylarks singing, seem to be making a come back here.
Sedge Warbler
Linnet female
Meadow Pipit
Skylark
Wheatear
Whinchat by Geoff Burton
A late pm visit to Seasalter by Geoff Burton found and photographed this whinchat and also saw a redstart.
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Lovely set of images today Mike, hoping to find a cuckoo soon here too :-)
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