Monday 1 July 2024

Birds, including rare Red-backed Shrike, at Thornwick Bay - 22nd and 23rd May 2024

There was very heavy rain in the morning on 22nd May and I stayed in the mobile home until after lunch.  When the rain stopped I went for a walk in the area near Thornwick Bay.

Goldfinch on top of pine shrub in Thornwick Bay Holiday Park

Male Blackbird gathering food for his young

The morning's heavy rain had brought a rare visitor to Thornwick Bay - a male Red-backed Shrike

Buck Roe deer in a field on the cliffs at North Landing

Male Stonechat perching on gorse at North Landing

Barn Owl flying above a field in North Landing

The next day I went for another walk in the Thornwick Bay area in order to see more wildlife

Common Whitethroat singing on a bush near the back of the holiday park

Two large Cayuga ducks were sitting at the edge of the lake


Statue of a deer at the edge of the lake

The Mute Swans that I had seen on a nest earlier in the week now had two young cygnets



Pied Wagtail standing on a pedalo in the boating lake

Male Yellowhammer on a twiggy tree near the boating lake

Thornwick Bay Holiday Park boating lake

Female Roe deer munching on Meadow Buttercups in a field near the boating lake

Another view of the proud Mute Swan parents with their two baby cygnets

A pair of Red-backed Shrikes were hiding in shrubbery at the edge of the holiday park.  I believe that this is the female.  They were really difficult to see.


By now, Shrike news had spread and the paparazzi had turned up at Thornwick Bay!

Greenfinch perching on a thin twig

Thornwick Bay and beach

Pretty pink Cow Parsley flower on the cliff

Dark sheep with light-coloured lamb in a cliff-top field

Linnet perching on barbed wire near the edge of the cliff

This poppet - my very last Yorkshire Puffin - had a beak full of Sand Eels!!



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