A good day at Alkborough Flats

Fabulous day at Alkborough starting with 2 Common Cranes that flew in from Blacktoft Sands at 06.10 showed well for half an hour before having a fly around giving their evocative bugle calls and eventually flying east along the Humber.  Supporting cast included a fine adult male Hen Harrier, a Greenshank, Wheatear and a cracking male Redstart.  Also still present was yesterday’s Whooper Swan and Common Scoter.

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Around Scunthorpe today..

Slightly warmer today now we have lost the  biting easterly wind so  we went for a drive around the Scunthorpe area with drive being the operative word as my Sciatica is still too painful for much walking, so lots of waiting for me while Wayne whipped round a few sites producing amongst other things 3 Whooper Swans, 1 Woodcock, 1 Wood Lark, 5 Jack Snipe, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Pink Footed Geese, 1 White-fronted Goose, 1 Goosander, 2 Med Gulls, 4 Black Tailed Godwit, 2 Fox, 3 Roe Deer and a dead Pole Cat!  and below a couple of shots taken from the garden yesterday of 3 Common Crane.

Common Cranes over Normanby

Don’t expect a good video here - it’s purely a 13 second record shot shakily taken in the excitement of 3 Common Cranes over our garden at 1.00pm today.  Later picked up by Dave in Burton and Neal at Alkborough and last seen heading over the Trent!

Common Cranes - North Lincs

Had a call tonight to see a pair of Common Cranes within the Scunthorpe Bird Reporting area - always great to see Common Cranes and also to hear their wonderful call.