Perseverance paid off with another trip to Penn's wood and this time some good views of the elusive Yellow-browed Warbler, which has now been here for 19 days now. A very difficult bird to pin down as it moves around with a very mobile flock of Long-tailed Tits, 3 Goldcrests and 2 Firecrests.
I found it today at the top of wood at 1:00pm, and it followed the tits and crests down the slope to here. I lost it and picked it up again behind the beach huts on Church Ope Cove at 1:30pm here. Ten minutes later it had moved on to below Cove Holiday Park here, where it looked as if it might be heading back to Penn's Wood. Sadly my prediction was way off and despite waiting 20 minutes in the wood, it and the Long-tailed Tits never made it.
Yellow-browed Warbler Route (Map courtesy of Google Earth)
As "normal" very quiet on the beach. In fact very very quiet, no Rock Pipits, wagtails, Robins, just 2 Wrens feeding in amongst the pebbles. Behind the huts I did find a Firecrest, and up in the trees something I've never heard before a male Raven singing.
A couple of photos from a very dreary day.
Out at sea again dozens of gulls and Gannets in a feeding frenzy.