Evening at Flamborough

Dad had just come back from Leicester and said we could go and try and see the Hoopoe on Flamborough Head. I had already seen a Hobby on the patch that afternoon so the day was already good birdwise. On the way to Flamborough we saw a Barn Owl gracefully hunting by the road. We got towards the Old Lighthouse, an area the bird had frequented. We saw a couple of birders and headed that way. As dad was getting his bins out I saw the Hoopoe dart across the road with it's huge rounded zebra patterned wings. We looked for it and picked it up in a garden, it then flew along into the garden of an empty house. We stood and watched it from the roadside as it probed into the ground looking for worms. It occasionally raised it's crest as the gulls, which it obviously felt threatened by, flew over. This was my first British Hoopoe as I had previously only seen them abroad. These were also the best views I have had of this fantastic bird. 

Hoopoe
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