Robin Hood's Bay

A weekend at Robin Hood's Bay, lovely weather. A quick trip to Bempton Cliffs early on Saturday morning gave views of tree sparrow (photo 1) 100+ gannets, fulmar and a few kittiwakes. Skylarks called over the fields but time was short. Red grouse (year lister) flew over the road as I returned towards Fylingdale.
During breakfast on the clifftop I continually grabbed my binoculars. Eider, great crested grebe, shag, pintail, great skua (year lister), kittiwake, gannet, etc before we set off. This was a 9 mile wander along the clifftops to Whitby. Fields were full of meadow pipits and oystercatchers were heard and seen 200 feet below. Also, purple sandpiper (year lister) were watched on the black rocks below. As this was a none bird watching break I didn't have time to check all the tempting vegetation along the top and after 3 hours we were enjoying a pint in Whitby.
Sunday and a quick check on Robin Hood's bay beach. 100+ turnstones were rounded up for a group photo (2,3 and 4) whilst, strangely, 2 canada geese called from the surf (5.) Never seen these geese on the sea and they didn't appear to be overkeen! A robin sang (6) whilst I checked through the scrub, coming across good numbers of house sparrows and dunnock, with a few linnets. However, a constantly moving warbler attracted my attention. Wing flapping and a quick view of wingbars gave me the impression of a yellow browed warbler. It disappeared into a buckthorn and, by now, the yellow supercillium had been seen, confirming the I'd. No dark sides on the crown were noted, ruling out Pallas's and no yellow rump was seen in flight ( another Pallas's diagnostic feature). Other diagnostic observations were made to rule out greenish warbler (2 wingbars very evident) darker primaries ruled out two barred greenish and a good green hue ruled out Hume's leaf warbler. Lazily, as a none birding trip, I hadn't packed a Collins so all done on memory. However, a confident identification. Note to the county recorder was immediately dispatched and I continued to try for a confirmation photo. So quick and agile I took 50+ photos of a bush, occasionally a blurred bird. Time was against me again and after half an hour I moved on. A great bird but as a single observer record and no photo it will not be accepted. Not a problem as I know what I saw.
Other photos:
7; the village
8. The Dock and Bay Hotel at dawn
9. Another view from the south.
10 distant view of The Abbey at Whitby from the Cleveland Way.
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