Siberian Accentor - Easington, Yorkshire

What an amazing story last week news broke of a Siberian Accentor in Shetland a 1st for Britian looking at the photos of him I went wow his beautiful but never dreamt in a million years I would ever get to see one.
Then news broke a few days later that there was at Easington in Yorkshire wow !!! We were just praying it would stay till Saturday I was very excited but then seeing photos of the queues on Friday scared me i'm not good with crowds and long queues but I think Dave knows me better than I know myself my way of dealing with going out of my comfort zone is by getting all worried and not wanting to go, but Dave knew I really wanted to go by my reaction when I first saw a photo of this beautiful bird, I'm so glad he just ignores my whinging lol On the Saturday morning we headed to Tom Perrins who kindly drove, we arrived parking made nice and easy by the Spurn team, and we headed over to the bird me still worrying about the crowds but we arrived and I couldn't believe it hardly any queue only had to wait five minutes and then we were looking at this amazing bird right in front of us so so beautiful feel so lucky to of seen her,
Dave brought me an amazing new camera for my birthday a Nikon P900 love it but hadn't had time to use it so trying to photograph the Siberian Accentor was hard work I hadn't got a clue what I was doing lol but I got a record shot, then decided to use my old camera for the rest of the day until I get time to practice with my new one :)

Siberian Accentor

Siberian Accentor

Siberian Accentor

We also had an excellent views of Shore Lark such stunning birds and got my first ever photos of one, and superb views of a Dusky Warbler which Dave was over the moon with such a pretty bird I kept saying looks like a Chiffchaff but I can see the difference now, Dave got some stonking photos I struggled it showed so well but by the time I had focused he had flitted every time I got a record shot though. One fo my highlights today was having great views of Pallas's Warbler had seen one before but hadn't had good views so was over the moon to be able to see all the detail on him loved him, also had nice views of Yellow-browed Warbler and lovely views of  a Juvenile Common Redstart so cute. 

There was common Migrants everywhere I had never seen so many birds lot's of Redwings, Fieldfare, Robins everywhere and beautiful little Goldcrests also had Bean Goose and White fronted Geese :)    

Had been an excellent day I'm so glad I went would of been gutted if I hadn't of gone, big thanks to Tom perrins for taking us :) Spectacular day !!!! 

Shore Lark

Shore Lark

Shore Lark

Common Redstart- Juvenile

Dusky Warbler

Dusky Warbler

A couple of Dave's amazing photos of the Dusky Warbler

Taken by Dave Hutton

Taken by Dave Hutton

Lifers in Norfolk, Red-flanked Bluetail, Hume's Leaf Warbler and more ....

Amazing day in Norfolk, Six new birds and another lifer for Dave.

 We started at Wells Woods, and the first bird we saw was Red-flanked Bluetail, so so beautiful fell in love with him straight away, stunning the first views was of the front where you could see the beautiful orangy on his chest, such a lovely cute face then it flew and landed lower down where it turned the other way showing me his amazing blue tail, love this bird.

We then went to find the Blyth's Reed Warbler waited awhile before Dave saw it fly into the Brambles I just got a glimpse and looked from a flash very white, then we walked round to try and get better views, I didn't get very good views but still over the moon to see another great bird.

We then walked down to where a Hume’s leaf Warbler and Pallas warbler had been reported, Dave heard the Hume’s straightaway we stood there and waited and it flew up to the tree giving nice views you could see how much greyer he was in comparison to Yellow-browed Warbler.

Couldn't find the Pallas’s Warbler, but we did also see Brambling in flight another new bird for me, love there call very distinctive. 

We then went onto Holkham for the Isabelline Shrike was very hard to locate but Dave found him very distant even with scope views but could clearly see the shape of him and the shape of the bill.

We then went to see the Pallas's Warbler, I really struggled with this bird it was in the sycamore tree and hard to see with all the leaves, I was getting frustrated with myself which I think was making it worse, I got a few glimpses in the end and the very white underparts really was striking. 

Birds in trees with leaves is a real problem for me think its something I need to work on think I need to be faster with my responses see movement and get those bins to eyes quicker and not stress lol

It's all a learning curve and enjoying every second of it :) The excitement and Buzz I get is just the best feeling.  

Also today we saw Redwing, Fieldfare and 3 Crossbill lovely to see them all again.

So many birds in one day im so so lucky to see all these birds and love all of them love birdwatching :)