I visited East Chevington today as my friend Owen Parsons needed Grey-Headed Lapwing and asked if I would like to go up with him,has he had missed the bird in 2023.
Back-to-back storm systems arrived off the Atlantic Ocean, with the especially fierce Storm Darragh bringing widespread Red and Amber warnings in southern and western areas of Britain and Ireland and the discovery of a Grey Headed Lapwing at East Chevington, Northumberland, on 5-6th of December came totally out of the blue, putting in two brief morning appearances with the site's assembled Northern Lapwing flock. It is tempting to speculate that it could be last year's adult, announced as being added to the British list as recently as August, returning to the county of its initial discovery – and it might also explain just where a bird photographed over Le Plan de la Garde, France.Not a bird any of us would have been betting on seeing again any time soon, let alone in early winter that is, assuming this is indeed the same bird as that last seen on North Uist (Western Isles) on 29th May 2023.
We arrived on site at first light and headed straight to a ploughed field to the south where the bird was being regular seen.After a good scan of the field the bird wasent present so we spent the rest of the day walking around the surrounding areas.
We did a seawatch whilst on site and were rewarded with good views of Common Scoter,Velvet Scoter,two Surf Scoters and a Black Throated Diver
Other birds of note were
We hung around the reserve till dusk but there was no sign of the Grey-Headed Lapwing, Owen was gutted but Im sure it will be refound over the coming days.
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