I spent yesterday in Scarborough. My son is working there at the moment so I did some birdwatching before meeting him for lunch. I started off by walking around the harbour looking for divers, but it was low tide so no luck.
A long steep climb up to St.Marys church looking for a redstart was equally fruitless. After lunch I returned to the churchyard, but only saw a song thrush!
Walking back to the car I saw a large bird in the harbour, so got my bins and cameral from the car and went looking for a diver again.No birds at all in the harbour, but I saw two people with a telescope so I joined them. Steve Race, Yorkshire Coast Nature, was one of them. They had spotted a diver out in the bay and it soon surfaced, some distance away.
Luckily it gradually came closer.
Another tick to take my year list to 192, will I make 200?