Desert Beauty,Thursday 28th December 2017.

After hearing the male Desert Wheatear was still present at Whitby,Trace and myself made the journey north to one of our favourite seaside towns to go and see if we could get some good views and hopefully a few photos as well.
 The bird has been frequenting a series of fields just south of Whitby Abbey,so was in some stunning surroundings.
 We decided to park in the town as we were going to have some lunch later and after getting the kit together and traversing the abbey steps,we arrived at the birds chosen field.
 Unfortunately he was only showing distantly,but that was soon remedied as everyone walked around to the far side of the field he was in.
 At first he kept his distance frustratingly feeding in a ploughed field,but then bingo...he came closer and closer,until he was ten feet away from the assembled crowd...what a cracker!.
 This is my sixth sighting of this stunning species which breeds as close as North Africa,with this consisting of 4 males in Yorkshire and 2 females in Linc's,the last,a male being seen at Bempton Cliffs RSPB reserve in December 2011.