Clacton - Northern Wheatear

Great to get away from my desk for a couple of days out on the Essex coastline.  This was a second visit for a set of winter-bird surveys.

The first early migrants had made landfall over the preceding days so an early walk along the beach at Clacton was an inspired decision as the Northern Wheatear encounter I had hoped for provided an unprecedented nine males perched up along the rocks with a couple along the beach.

On site, a pair were seen close to the vantage point.