Flamborough Head

With winds from the East yesterday and strong northerly today we had a trip into Yorkshire to see a few vagrants from the continent. The only photos we took were of the Wryneck and these are distant - the sun was just too bright, the wind too strong and the birds a little distant but we saw the following in just one field; Icterine Warbler, Red-Backed Shrike, Wryneck, Pied Flycatcher, Redstart and Whinchat. Out to sea we saw 5 Arctic Skuars, 4 Manx Shearwaters and 1 Great Skuar.  Our only miss of the day was an Ortolan Bunting - others standing next to us saw an Ortolan Bunting sitting next to a House Sparrow, we saw a female House Sparrow sitting next to a juvenile House Sparrow - make of that what you will!  An added bonus was a juvenile White-winged Black Tern on Hornsea Mere which we caught on the way home.