Another great day at Spurn that started with several Short-eared Owls and a male Ring Ouzel at Sammy's followed by a showy but a bit distant Richards' Pipit near Kilnsea. Later while searching for a reported Little Bunting near the breach 2 interesting looking plovers flew up off the Humber mudflats. Frustratingly they flew a long way before landing again and were just blobs in the heat haze and then a few minutes later flew again heading north out of view We were quite confident they were not European Goldies but we thought that was that, the ones that had got away, but amazingly things turned out well later in the day.
After going to see a Yellow-browed Warbler at Easington we were driving back to Kilnsea when we passed a flock of around a 1000 Golden Plovers in a field close to the road. We quickly located a small grey plover in the flock but almost straight away they were all up in the air and gone, typical ! Fortunately they came back and the bird in question was there but very distant and again flew off in the direction of Kilnsea Wetland so we quickly drove down the road, shot up to Longbank where we relocated it with the second bird dropping in a little later. Amazing.
