Motorway Buzzard & Red Kite at Wetherby on the trip up.
Lockwood Beck: 4 Siskin, 2 Treecreeper ditto LTT, few Coal Tit, Mistle Thrush, Blackbirds, usual woodland sp.
Redcar: 17 Purple Sandpiper, 4 Turnstone, c45 Sanderling. In with the Purple Sandpipers was a single unexpected wader that looked rather like a Little Stint. However after some doubt set in we subsequently realised it is a Winter Dunlin.
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| Photo: DW |
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| Photo: DW |
The Boating Lake roost had a large number of Knot with a lesser number of Redshank thrown in.
Cowpen Bewley: Several mixed Sparrow species; Tree outnumbering House. Marsh Tit & mixed Tit Flock incl a few Coal & LTT.
1 Yellowhammer & a couple of Reed Bunting.
Greatham Creek: c25 Curlew, 10 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Little Egret, 9 Shelduck, several Teal, numerous Wigeon. Also c26 Big Fat Sausage Seals.
Things tailed off at Hartlepool Jewish Cemetery; 1 Skylark, 5/6 Shag, Herring Gulls.
Saltholme: 16 Stock Dove, 5 Greenfinch (a belated annual for me), 5 Gadwall, 4 Pochard, similar Tufted Duck, Shoveler, large Greylag flock overhead & a pr Stonechat. 1 Kestrel doing the rounds on the aptly named Kestrel Trail.
Several Lapwing, more Curlew & Oystercatcher seen throughout each location and another 3 Red Kite seen over the motorway on the journey home.
