Hornsea sea watch then Filey Dams and Brigg and Flamborough

My mate Andy came over for the day to do a bit of East Coast birding and we started at the sea front here in Hornsea. Not a bad little haul over the 2 hours we were there, with excitement being provided by a Sunfish that swam slowly by. This was my first sighting of a Sunfish 😀

9 Red-throated Diver
Bonxie
Arctic Skua (dark phase)
possible Pomerine Skua
20+ Common Scoter
14 Wigeon
15 Gannet
3 Sandwich Tern

Ocean Sunfish (video below)
Grey Seal

We travelled up to Filey to see if the Spoonbill was still at the Dams but we missed it unfortunately. We still had:

5 Bar-tailed Godwit
Snipe
Redshank
Dunlin
Lapwing
Little Egret

Bar-tailed Godwit

Redshank

Dunlin, Barwit and Redshank

Off to the Country Park looking forward to a good lunch - but the cafe was closed!! Hunger ate at our stomachs for the next 2 hours with many a rumbling sound from mine.

Along the Brigg we saw the highlight of the day - a good sized pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphins swimming east, parallel to Carr Naze. We had great views of them and photos galore were snapped.

30+ Bottle-nosed Dolphins

A couple of Common Seal were basking on the Brigg too.

 3 Knot and the usual Oystercatchers were feeding down off Carr Naze:

3 Knot and a few Oycs

Off to Flamborough for some much needed nourishment and once we'd eaten at the outer head cafe we set off for the new sea watching hide. On the way we had Pied Flycatcher, distantly, but a good record for me.

From the sea watching hide we saw more Common Scoter, Wigeon, Bonxie and Gannet. Andy had Manx Shearwater but I never got onto it. We had fabulous views of a Kestrel from the hide -

Kestrel

What a brilliant day, made all the better by Andy's expertise and keen eye sight 👍 Cheers mate.