As we're experiencing a stall in Spring migration just now, I thought I'd continue my retrospective look at 2014. Over the years, I've visited the North of England many times. I've stayed in Filey several times, Bridlington, Saltburn, Mablethorpe, Seaton Carew and Scarborough. I have to say the birding is often magnificent during the Autumn, and I've seen many rarities including Great Knot, Pechora Pipit, Ross's & Franklin's Gulls, Desert Warbler and Lesser Crested Tern to name but a few. The falls of commoner birds can also be spectacular, and seawatching often rewarding. It also has the advantage over Norfolk and the Northern isles of not being so expensive! Anyway, 2014 gave me a reason to head up the A19 once again.
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| Eastern Crowned Warbler ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
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| Eastern Crowned Warbler ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
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| Eastern Crowned Warbler ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
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| Eastern Crowned Warbler ( Copyright T D Wright ) |
No dark tip to the underside of the lower mandible then! This beauty spent several days in the golf course plantation at Brotton. I know it's a long way from Devon but this species has only ever turned up in the Northeast (that you could go to see anyway) and I missed out on it before because I was working all weekend when the South Shields bird turned up a few years ago. This one was showing really well, and even a novice photographer like me could get some decent shots. More on next post!
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