Brambling
Spurn Lighthouse
Bearded Tit
Song Thrush
Greater Spotted Woodpecker
Brambling
Brambling
Redwing landing off the sea
Redwing
Siberian Lesser Whitethroat
Redwing in the hand
I thought there may be more movement but I still recorded the following during the session :- 60+ Common Scoter, 6 Red-throated Diver, 2 Arctic Skua, 1 Pommarine Skua, 1 Great Skua, 30 Wigeon, large number of Little Gull 20 Tern sp, 2 Great Crested Grebes and a Scaup on the Humber.
Watching from where I did enabled me to also watch the ringing in action. The Redwing, fresh in off the sea, was simply stunning whilst most interest involved a Siberean Lesser Whitethroat.
After an enjoyable lunch in the visitor centre (took this option as food in pub was VERY average on last visit) overlooking the humber we then did some birding around the traingle. Our first finds were six Bearded Tits in the canal reed bed, a first me at Spurn, patience was required as they were up and down very quickly. Out on the Humber large number of Dunlin, Golden Plover & Knot were feeding. Up above us I picked up a Short-eared Owl that looked at one stage like it was heading towards us before heading towards Beacon Lane.
Ten minutes in the observatory garden produced two Yellow-browed Warblers a real Autum favourite. There were Song Thrushes coming in all the time whilst a couple of female Redstarts were having their last feed before heading south. Our final find of a very enjoyable day were 3 Brambling feeding up on Beacon Lane.
On the way home we stopped in at Loughbrough to see Gussy at his University. We picked a chinese up as we were truly shattered. Already looking forward to our next visit to Spurn.
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