The Sand Plover was reported to be on the beach at Cleveland Redcar at Teeside a few days before we could all head up to try for it due to family commitments.
But on Monday a bank holiday we meet up and the 3 of us spend the next 4 hours driving keeping our fingers crossed that the lifer would still hang around for a little longer for us.
We arrive after a trouble-free run and park in the beach car park and pay for 3 hours at £1 an hour so not bad.
We start the walk up the beach where we can see a group and as we walk people on the way back tell us that the Sand Plover was showing well, so I increase my pace trying to keep up with Brian.
The bird was showing really well although the light was dull so no great photos but some good record shots, but great scope views.
A good hour is spent watching the fabulous little Plover as it is busy chasing about with the Ring Plovers and Dunlins before everybody lost sight of it.
It was later seen by the bandstand at the car park end of the beach a good mile and a half walk that we did just to get more of this cracking little bird.
While here we see many Gannets, Fulmar, Common, and Sandwich Tern out at sea.
Also seen Whimbrel, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Knot, Turnstone, and Redshank.
After we had enough of the Plover we head a short distance up the road to a place Brian had been to before called South Gore to look for a Red-backed Shrike but birders already there tell us that after 2 hours there was no sign of the bird. so we head over the road to meet up with a local birder and he gets us on a distance Curlew Sandpiper for a year tick and we find another tick when we see some Little Terns. Off home now and that takes us around 5 hours after a hold-up near Leeds where a festival was taking place.
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