Wryneck

 A lifer for me yesterday and I saw it in an unlikely spot, Boldon Business Park. I’m sorry there are a few of the Wryneck in a very similar pose (it is after all a lifer) as it didn’t move around much while I was there the weather might have had something to do with that, it was tipping it down. That said these images do not do this cracking little bird justice. I also got a Sedge Warbler today, a first for the year, at Burdon Moor.

Wryneck

Sedge Warbler

A Nice Surprise

 Grey and miserable morning but it was off to Boldon Flats today for the Tundra Bean Goose. It showed briefly near the pond but everything went up when a Peregrine flew through. A Caspian Gull was a nice surprise (hats off to the man who spotted it in amongst all the other gulls). A Mediterranean Gull was also on the pond but I got it in the air. The Tundra Bean Goose had relocated to a horse paddock with a flock of Greylags and showed very well until a horse got too close then everything flew off.
It was then onto Whitburn Steels for the Water Pipit which unfortunately I dipped. I did however manage a Rock Pipit.

Caspian Gull

Caspian Gull

Caspian Gull

Mediterranean Gull

Mediterranean Gull

Peregrine Falcon

Peregrine

Peregrine

Tundra Bean Goose

Tundra Bean Goose

Tundra & Greylags

Tundra & Greylags

Greylag

Rock Pipit