A windy day at Spurn

With overnight weather conditions looking good for migrants falling out of the sky we were up early and on our way to Spurn at dawn.  But all was not well the wind had turned strong South which surely  meant we would see nothing much however despite having difficulty standing upright and with the birds doing their best to keep their heads down we managed the following; 1 Yellow Browed Warbler, 1 Barred Warbler which bucked the trend and showed surprisingly well, 1 Wryneck, 1 Red Breasted Flycatcher, 5 Pied Flycatchers, 2 Spotted Flycatchers, 1 Brambling, 1 Long Eared Owl, 1 Tree Pipit, 15+ Redstarts and once again the stars of the autumn so far 5 juvenile Gannets once again forgetting that they are seabirds and flying through the Crown and Anchor car park.
Wryneck
One of many Redstarts

A newly ringed Grasshopper Warbler!

Spurn Point - Long-toed Stint?

We decided to visit a new RSPB reserve down in the wash today, Frampton Marsh but wouldn't you know it the bird pager went off just as we were setting off - a possible Long-toed Stint had been seen last night and again first thing this morning at Patrington Haven so off we went.  By the time we reached Patrington we had missed high tide so we carried on to Spurn Point  with plans to go back to Patrington at the next high tide at about 7.30.  So we decided to look for the juvenile Marsh Warbler down Beacon Lane which had been seen yesterday - after about an hour of looking we finally found the bird, surprisingly this was a lifer for me so I was happy.  To cut a long story short we saw the stint or a stint which turned out to be a Little Stint not a Long-toed Stint and to add insult to injury for Wayne at the same time it came through on the pager that a Collared Pratincole was at Frampton Marsh a new Lincolnshire 'tick' for us.  We had a lovely day at Spurn though with thousands of waders and dozens of terns and 3 Emperor Dragonflies - I wonder though where we will be tomorrow.