Good to spot this Basking Shark? coasting along from Parton Rocks direction and passed the Headland reasonably close in before going out to sea past the Heugh Pier.
Trip up to South Gare with
@AddeyNick
&
@cwbell64
.
No sign of the Hoopoe, but pleased to find a cracking male Red backed shrike! 😍. Phonescoped.
@nybirdnews
Great to catch up with the rather splendid Glossy Ibis at St Aidan’s
@RSPBAireValley
today, looking good at various times of the day in different light 🤪
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@teesbirds1
Great Grey Shrike at Garmondsway near Trimdon today was quite mobile, but kept returning to same place, a local said it has been around for 2 weeks.
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@teesbirds1
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#RaritiesOnThisDay
Three PINE BUNTINGS have been found, 2018 Norfolk, 2017 Yorks (pic below by David Carr) and 1995 Wexford.
So who is going to make it four and find one today?
Stats on BBRC accepted rarities available on our Previous Records database
Snowgoose a little away from usual field today... with golden plovers starting to show black underbelly. 3 x whitefronts still at Penny Pot Lane along with a single pink foot.
No sign of Hawfinch at Harewood or Fountains Abbey this afternoon, but the female Smew is still at Ripon City Wetlands, along with pair of Goosander & several Goldeneye
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After arriving at South Gare in heavy rain and glimpsing the brown booby through the murk on a buoy and watching it fly off, we had a coffee, the weather cleared and we watched it on pilot pier where the local lads had said it would return to and where it still was when we left.