Missing October Good 'uns

The large numbers of good birds seen up and down the East Coast of Yorkshire have largely passed us by here in Hornsea.

Although we've had a Yellow-browed Warbler, we haven't seen much else. I haven't been able to get out that often due to family illness but to be fair I wouldn't be following the twitchers anyway. If there's a crowd of people I usually go the other way to avoid them :)

I've been checking the beach, cliffs and KP most mornings when I'm not driving West and the best bird seen has been a Grey Plover. I found it on KP on Saturday afternoon and then saw it on South Beach the morning after, then myself and a friend saw 2 over the Mere. This morning there were 2 on the beach along with a Redshank:

Grey Plovers and Redshank

Numbers of Greylag Geese have been building through October and on Sunday morning I counted 891 from KP. Many of the birds wake us up in the morning as they fly from their roosts over our house towards Hornsea Mere:

Greylag Geese heading towards The Mere

As the geese wake me up I get out of bed and check to see how the day is looking. This morning there were 3 Roe Deer in the field behind us, munching on newly-sown crops. Oh deer!!

Roe Deer

Butterflies are now but dim and distant memories, but on Sunday morning on a fading rose flower, we had a Red Admiral in our garden. A nice sight, but one that won't be available until next year now :(

The Easterly winds have been blowing for the last few days and this morning's was quite chilly. I may have to abandon my shorts soon!