a bit better afternoon

South easterlies over the last couple of days have resulted in a handful of migrants along the east coast, I nipped to Flamborough after work but it seemed that all yesterdays good birds had moved on and it was very quiet, a Stonechat in the Gorse field was the best I could manage, then Mark rang and told me that an Olive Backed Pipit had just been found at Filey, I shot off there and joined the twenty or more birders looking for not one but two OBP’s, unfortunately they were not little posers and even though I stayed till dark I only managed a couple of flight views, still better than nothing also a Short Eared Owl flew over as I was waiting.