After a great week of guiding many lovely clients at Spurn, I got back to York late on Friday - and with conditions looking promising for Saturday, I couldn't resist a quick turnaround, and headed for back to the coast for a pre-dawn start on Carr Naze.
South-easterlies and low cloud (and even a little drizzle) promised much, and delivered, to a degree; not a major fall as hoped, but plenty to enjoy and plenty and arriving through the course of the morning:
Stars of the show (of which there were many, as ever on a quality migration day) included: hundreds of thrushes - mainly Redwings, but also plenty of Fielfares, Song Thrushes and Blackbirds, and single Mistle Thrush and Ring Ouzel; a Lapland Bunting in off the sea (with Redwings!); two vocal Yellow-browed Warblers in Arndale; an
acredula Willow Warbler; plenty of Bramblings and Chaffinches, plus Twite, Siskins and Redpolls; a fly-by Long-tailed Duck;
... and no quality late autumn day back at filey is complete without a Snow Bunting, and this beautiful female was characteristically mega-tame on Carr Naze.
A lovely six-hour session, and hopefully a harbinger of more action upcoming....
(Pics - Snow Bunting, thrushes and Starlings arriving, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Fieldfare)
