This post covers Tuesday and Wednesday, 21st and 22nd April, and visits the beach and fields behind the dunes at either side of East Haven.
Wednesday, the field which used to be dune grasses near Hatton Sewage Works. Its been ploughed which has left a dry sandy surface and today it attracted many species. A Blue-headed Wagtail and 15 White Wagtails had been reported on Tuesday when I was at the southern side of East Haven. A Yellow Wagtail had been seen at Carnoustie earlier. Today I stopped looking at White Wagtails after the Yellow appeared from nowhere and I spent some time trying to get photos and video of a very mobile bird. Also in the field, Wheatears, Reed Buntings, Yellowhammers, Meadow Pipits, Skylarks, Linnets, Pied Wagtails, Oystercatchers and a single Whimbrel.
Tuesday, I covered East Haven to Westhaven and had a good selection of birds, highlights were 5 Whimbrel, around 100 Knot and same number of Bar-tailed Godwits, also my first 4 Swallows and another Sandwich Tern, and Gannets fishing out at sea.
Yellow Wagtail at Hatton, click here for video
White Wagtail, click here for video
Pied Wagtails in conflict, click here for video
Yellow Wagtail female.
Most likely the settings of the camera that's causing this Wheatear to look so stunning
White Wagtail, the only usable photo, but to be fair they are wary and you can't get close. I took many rump photos as an ID aid
Meadow Pipit
These male Pied Wagtails were having a standoff
Reed Bunting male, at least three along the field edge and one or two females
Not the world's best flight photo but currently I'm only carrying the less conspicuous P1000
This Whimbrel was in front of the ditch that flows on to the beach at the car park in East Haven
From the far side of a big field and through a heat haze, it still shows the size and colour difference between the Whimbrel and the Curlew. There were 4 Whimbrel alongside 7 Curlews just south of the village at East Haven
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