With friends staying over, I haven't been able to get out birding much during the past few days. However, with sightings of Greenish Warbler and Wryneck plus plenty of commoner drift migrants from other parts of the Scarborough Birders recording area in the past two days, I was hopeful of some left overs to be found today. Although the mist was swirling about first thing, it soon became sunny and warm with cloudless skies. It also became apparent that if there was anything about I was going to have to work hard for it. Counts of 16 Chiffchaffs, 3 Blackcaps and 9 Whitethroats were pleasing, but largely relating to local birds rather than drift migrants. Overhead evidence of visible migration was limited to a few Swallows and the odd flava Wagtail heading south. With persistence I dug out a Reed Warbler (infrequent here) and the cover crop held an excellent concentration of 11 Whinchats, probably the largest count I have recorded in the few years I have been covering the area. However, ultimately there was nothing to really get the pulse racing.
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| Reed Warbler |
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| Juvenile Whitethroat, still being fed by its parent |
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