Yorkshire Coast

Another spot of twitching this weekend involved a visit to a holiday camp on the Yorkshire coast. Visitors to Reighton Sands had found a rare Pied Wheatear doing a tour of the static caravans during the week which in turn attracted several hundred birders to the site. The wheatear spent much of the time feeding on the ground keeping one eye over it's shoulder for the stalking hordes.

This Pied Wheatear picks a lousy weekend to visit an east coast holiday camp

After spending an hour getting uninspiring views through the lens I succumbed to the cold and headed up the coast to Filey where conveniently the tide was in.

Oystercatcher at Filey North Cliff Country Park

Good numbers of Oystercatchers, Ruddy Turnstones and Redshanks had been displaced as a result and were seeing out the high water in the car park at the cliff top country park. On occasion they can be joined by rarer godwits and Knot but no such luck today.


Redshank & Ruddy Turnstones search for an alternative to their usual diet at Filey NCCP