Sunday, 16 October 2016

Long way but what a beauty in Yorkshire S Accentor

Met up with Brian at 4am for the long drive to East Yorkshire, on the way we encounter some fog patches but we make good progress & after 3, 1/2 hours we are only 8 miles away from Easinton when the pager comes into life & the first bird to show is our target bird.
Feeling that we are only about 10 minutes away from another lifer we arrive in Easinton to be met by some local volunteers who point us in the right direction, round the corner & down the road to be meet by more volunteers who see us into the car park, it's just a short walk back up the road to Vicars Lane that has been shut off to traffic by the police, at the top of the road more volunteers who I must say all did a fantastic job a very big thank you to them all.
We do not have to wait in line & head to the fence where we see the Siberian Accentor feeding on insects & walking about showing very well down by the yellow skip.So a long way but what a lifer to get.We have our feel of the bird before it flies off over the road & is a lot harder to see now so it's time to head off.
We head up to the car park at Kilnsea & just a few yards onto the beach we get good views of a Shore lark, not needed for a tick but always nice to see one.
 The weather is not looking good & rain is on the way, the pager tells us a Pallas's Warbler is up the road in the pub car park, so off we head & find loads off birders gathered looking for it.
The rain is getting a bit heavy now & it's not looking good for us to find the bird, but find it we did & I tick another year tick.
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Off home now as the weather is now rotten but on the way we find a flock of Tundra Bean Geese I am the only one needing these for a year tick so pleased about that as I am well down on numbers this year.
Kilnsea Shore lark
The Siberian Accentor
Again Accentor



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