We might not have the skills of the 'Punk Birders' but someone must be reading our birds and beer pub watching blogs, Gary was asked recently '...are you one of those 'drunk birders?'. On Sunday for the first time in a few months Gary, James and myself went out again as a trio to hunt for autumn migrants. With the Eastern
Olivaceous Warbler leaving Yorkshire overnight, we instead headed for
Holme NOA and NWT reserves. We first looked in on the
juv.
Red-necked Phalorope at
NOA's Redwell. A smart male
Redstart added a little extra value to the £3 fee for entering the hide! We had a walk around the forestry behind the NWT Info Centre where eventually Gary located a
Pied Flycatcher, but little else was around. Along the
entrance track we watched a Garden Warbler catching flies at close quarters, a female
Redstart,
Stonechat and a
juv.
Red-backed Shrike, before two
Peregrine then drifted over low. We then went to the pub, not just pub but the best birding pub there is, the Dun Cow at
Salthouse. Here i added 5 new 'pub ticks',
Canada Goose, Common Tern, Hobby,
Whinchat and
Greenshank. We also
picked out Sandwich Tern,
Wheatear and Gannet all good pub birds. Doubling back to
Stiffkey we eventually caught up with a
Barred Warbler not far from the campsite, and also saw
Garden Warbler and
Whitethroat. A
brief stop at
Cley coastguards failed to turn up any Lapland Buntings but during a quick
seawatch we saw dark, light and intermediate
Arctic Skua, a few distant Gannet and a close flyby Guillemot. With the sun starting to fall in the sky we walked the back of
Weyborne Camp. We failed to locate the
Wryneck seen earlier in the day, but Gary found our second Red-backed Shrike of the day, large flock of 30+ Pied Wagtail failed to hold a White Wagtail and a couple of
Wheatear flitted about in the orange glow.
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