Cleethorpes...Monday 8th December 2014.

With the prospect of a decent,albeit cold forecast today,saw me heading out fairly locally to Cleethorpes after hearing the previous day had seen a couple of Shorelarks associating with the resident Snow Bunting flock.
 So as i arrived full winter birding kit was the order of the day and i made my way out to the beach and developing shoreline were the birds had been seen.
 It wasn't too long before i spotted the birds distantly and made my way over to them,but after a couple of scans through the flock there was no sign of the Larks unfortunately.
 On the plus side,the flock was a pretty good sized one,containing 89 birds and is currently the largest flock being reported in the country.Several adult males were contained in this group of lovely Buntings but the bulk were immatures,unfortunately they were not very photogenic being very jumpy

Partial albino Carrion Crow.

Drake Pochard.

1st calendar year Common Gull.

Black-headed Gulls.

Collared Dove.

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 A walk back through the dune system revealed small numbers of Skylark,Reed Buntings and a few Rock Pipits,with an interesting partial albino Carrion Crow which looked striking in flight.
 I then decided to have a look on the boating lake to see if any Med Gulls were present,but not so today,instead at least 6 Drake Pochard were the main interest and are probably the tamest birds i have seen.
 So after a fairly quiet morning i made the short journey home Larkless,but there is the remainder of the winter to go and some more may turn up.A good few hours out and about in the lovely winter sun.