Filey: 2 bites of the cherry.

The weather forecast was for a fine day, so I took the opportunity to visit Filey.  My first point of call was Filey Dams nature reserve.

This is the view from the first hide I visited. 3 green sandpipers were on the scrape

a single redshank was also present

I walked to the next hide

Mostly greylag geese and a single Canada goose plus a few lapwings.
O then went to the third hide.

As you can see, a bird free zone.

A chap had turned up to cut the vegetation. Time to move on to the Country Park. There was a queue at the machine to get a ticket to park. A notice said either cash or card but it was not accepting either, so I had to walk to another machine. I parked the car and set off along the top of the Brigg.

I found a spot at the edge of the cliff and got ready for a couple of hours sea watching

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 Most of the birds flying past were gannets, presumably from the nearby Bempton Cliffs. Other birds include sandwich terns, fulmars, kittiwakes and shags. Lots of guillemots on the sea but sadly no sign of birds such as shearwaters or skuas. Then I was stung by a wasp, so went back to my car to get some ointment. 

I decided to go back to Filey Dams. On the way out of the car park I noticed that a man from the council had turned up and was stood next to the ticket machine, waving his arms at the queue of people.

Back at the reserve, the man was still at work cutting the vegetation near the first hide, so I walked to the last hide. Mostly gulls that were present.

This gull had rings on one leg.

A wood pigeon came close as did a greylag.

Then a couple of black tailed godwits flew in

3 dunlin were the next to arrive followed by some ruff and 3 common sandpipers, The sun was behind them so taking photographs was not easy.

Returning for a second bite of the cherry proved worthwhile.