June - July 2011

 Avocets at Cresswell ponds, Northumberland

Offshore in the North Sea, no birding at all but had three Manx Shearwater flying past during a muster drill off Montrose and plenty of all the usual seabirds inshore off Aberdeenshire.

Fifteen minutes birding in Northumberland (without binoculars!) produced Avocets, Little Gull, Bar-headed Goose and plenty more besides.