After Eight

A bit of a late start for a Sunday. Arrived at Warkworth Picnic Site car park after eight and Stewart was already half way down a brew. I joined him and then we headed off to the Old Water and Dunes suitably refreshed.

A new bird for the year this morning, Whinchat, typically on tall plants in one of the the dune clearings.

Plenty of birds about but not perhaps the migrants we were expecting, a lone Wheatear was on the north shore of the Estuary.

Anyway, despite more than a rumor of a Bittern in the Old Water reed bed yesterday this is all about the Whinchat, good to see and the year list is 128, notwithstanding armchair errors...

a few pics..

Grey Heron

Little Egret

Whinchat

Wheatear