A check of the cliff top fields near Staple Newk at Bempton RSPB this morning provided today’s star birds when three Lapland Buntings were found along with at least 5 Twite and 6 Corn Buntings. Two of the birds were males and were even tempted by the weather into brief song.
Elsewhere the sea watch produced 314 Fulmar north (including three “blues”) and 237 Puffin also north, a single male Wheatear and 2 Scandinavian Rock Pipits on the Golf Course and two Grey Partridge and a male Stonechat at Cattlemere.

