Taking family members up to the North York Moors in mid-April (near Pickering), I will probably get one day to slope off birding… besides heading down to RSPB Bempton Cliffs about an hour away, does anyone have any thoughts/recommendations for where to go?

(@sarahdalgulls ?)

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The local birds became quite noisy at lunchtime including an unusual sounding one. Merlin Bird ID says it's a nuthatch. It's blooming loud for such a small bird. #birds #birdingUK
Corn Bunting are very much in evidence in the East Neuk of Fife at the moment #birdingFife #birdingScotland #birdingUK #birding
Have a photo of a yellow wagtail
You know you want to. #nature #birdinguk #NatureToot
A write up of my Stejneger’s Scoter find at Lower Largo at the end of April (with bonus White-winged Scoters) #birdingFife #birdingScotland #birdingUK #birding
https://chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/stejnegers-scoter-in-fife/
Stejneger’s Scoter in Fife

Chatterstanes
The female or 2nd calendar year male Red-breasted Flycatcher that I found at Lower Kilminning a couple of days ago #birdingFife #birdingScotland #birdingUK #birding
Black Redstart, Hooded Crow, 8 of the group of 9 Hare, and a Dipper on station from this morning #birdingFife #birdingScotland #birdingUK #birding
The first bird I saw this morning, an Osprey heading north overhead near Ruddon’s Point. Spring is sprung
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The vernal equinox has coincided with me hearing my first chiffchaff of the year. It was lovely to hear all that chiffchaffing, like a herald of winter's end.

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A brief sunny ☀️ interlude produced from one spot at least 10 singing skylarks, 5 lapwings in territorial display with attendant females and merlin going across the marsh like Concorde. No migrants along the coastal footpath to #Berwick-Upon-Tweed and all the stonechat seem to have done a runner 🤷‍♂️