Hostile greeting for raptor as it arrived in Cleethorpes

Hey Jim, As secretary of the Bird Club you should know that for records like these to have any chance of appearing in the annual report there needs to be an estimate of numbers - otherwise they go down as one only. Luckily there are a few photographs to assist on this occasion

Raptor -  I've got it down as a female/juv hen harrier - flew into Cleethorpes low over the Humber to be 'greeted' by a mobbing party of carrion crows which quickly grew in number from four to nearly thirty.

Elsewhere, disappointment when a couple of larks on the beach proved to be of the sky rather than the shore variety.

Plenty of knot, dunlin bar-tailed godwit, ringed plovers  and oystercatchers, plus a few grey plovers, at the high-tide roost.