Uncertainty

A scattering of Snow Buntings along the NE coast always helps lift the mood on a quiet birding day.

Pochard

A good bird to stumble across on the South Marine Park, SS. If you think the water is a strange blue colour your are correct. I'm sure there is a reason for this artificial  colouring? This used to be a decent place to look for wintering ducks and grebes in the past.

Whitburn Steel

30+ Rock Pipits and a similar number of Pied Wagtails feeding on the seaweed grubs. Always good to sift through them. The variation in colour and markings are amazing. It is no wonder that the Rock, Water, Buff-bellied were all lumped together at one time. Winter Littoralis and Petrosus are difficult to separate so I'll have to check the spring birds next year to see if any Scandi birds are obvious.

Sparrowhawk

Protecting its breakfast.

Hume's YB Warbler

Sound recording from a couple of weeks back.