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[alcina2]

Twice this month, I've driven to Land's End because the weather forecast was just perfect for seeing shearwaters. Unfortunately, it's a long drive from Yorkshire, and both times the weather has changed its mind while I was en route

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[tiggymalvern]

Glad you finally got your birds. I spent 4 hours tramping 6 miles along a beach on Monday morning, looking for a lesser sand plover which apparently departed on Sunday evening. On the way home, I stopped at Hoquiam, searching the Caspian terns for the elegant terns that were there both the day before and the day after...

A tropicbird?

[tiggymalvern]

Indeed it was a tropicbird. Of the red-billed variety, the fifth one ever seen passing from a UK headland. I am still waiting for the alarm clock to go off and wake me up in the Exeter Motel where I stayed overnght :)

Bad luck on the dips. For the last two weeks most of my birding has been like that. But now I feel better.:-) Hope the same happens to you.