malskelton
Enthusiastic Amateur
If you only have a couple of hours would suggest Spurn, lots to look at, anything can turn up and you only have to ask someone with bins and you will be told of all birds in the area.
If you post some of the more regular species you have not seen I am sure folk in East Yorks. will be more than happy to give you some locations to look.
Thanks for the reply, I have been to Spurn a few times and always manage to be in the wrong place - although I have picked up a couple of lifers at the Crown & Anchor ( Brent Geese last March )
In terms of what I still need to see ;
COMMON
Crossbill - Knot - Lesser Redpoll - Lesser Whitethroat - Rock Pipit - Tree Pipit - Whinchat
LOCAL
Bean Goose - Black Guillemot - Black Redstart - Black Throated Diver - Grasshopper Warbler - Nightingale - Quail - Crested Tit - Curlew Sandpiper - Dartford Warbler - Dotterel - Nightjar - Storm Petrel - Firecrest - Glaucous Gull - Bittern - Gooshawk - Hawfinch - Hooded Crow - Iceland Gull - Jack Snipe - Laplan Bunting - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - Little Auk - Little Stint - Long Tailed Duck - Pied Flycatcher - Chough - Red Necked Grebe - Ptarmigan - Roseate Tern - Shore Lark - Slavonian Grebe - Snow Bunting - Twite - Velvet Scoter - Water Pipit - Capercaillie - Whimbrel - Wood Lark - Wood Sandpiper
Obviously there are thousands of Scarce, Rare and Mega that I haven't seen .... but these are the ones that I think I might have a chance of picking up. I appreciate that some of them are only available in other parts of the country ( Chough, Crested Tit, Capercaillie etc ) so that narrows down the list.
Any advice or suggestions for picking up any of these in 5 hours on Saturday afternoon would be fantastic
If it's easier then a PM would be awesome
Mal Skelton