It got out nice

After a day of sun and showers, it got out quite nice this evening, a bit of warm sunshine and a force 2 NW, after spending the day walking along the bay from Cresswell to Warkworth, I still hadn't had enough so popped into the patch for an evening visit between 7 and 9pm.

The first bird I saw was a nice juvenile cuckoo, perched on the fence at the back of the dunes, being scolded by a meadow pipit and mobbed by swallows. This was my first cuckoo of the year on the patch. Sod's law no camera!

The sea was flat-calm, good conditions for watching cetaceans, a harbour porpoise out to the north was the only sea mammal I saw. One of the great-northern divers was really close in, close enough to photograph, if I'd taken my digi-scoping camera.....

Also on the sea were 26 red-throated divers (!!), an arctic skua and 2 common scoter.

The little egret is still hanging about, it flew up over the trees as I was leaving.

130 cuckoo

PS I just tried to get onto my blog and got this message:

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Also, I tried to get onto the fatbirder website to email Bo Beolens and it was also flagged up by google as being dodgy - anyone else had any bother?

I've deleted the html code from fatbirder top 500 to be safe...