With rain overnight and strong easterly winds we decided to head to Spurn and boy, did we make the right decision ! We didn't get any further than Sammy's Point where we had fleeting but unmistakable views of the Pallas's Warbler. Good to catch up with folk we hadn't seen recently and it's always good to have a catch up. Standing at the far end of the third paddock and Karen glances down the path.....there's a wheatear, look how pale it is, look at it ! Bingo.....an Isabelline Wheatear and it was instantly flushed by birders coming the other way. We re-found it down on the rocks for it to be flushed again. This time it went quite a way back towards the car park and sat on the barned wire fence only to be flushed again. By this time we were getting stressed.....we hadn't had a good look and hadn't got a photo. We eventually found it in the first paddock sitting on tyres and started to alert birders to it. But as the crowds began to grow, the wheatear got further away. What a brilliant day and a cracking find.
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