Black-browed Cracker!....Bempton Cliffs RSPB,East Yorkshire,Friday 3rd July 2020.

There are some birds that just have the wow factor! and after viewing some totally gripping photos the previous evening of an adult Black-browed Albatross at Bempton Cliffs RSPB,i just had to go and attempt to see this monster seabird.
 Fast forward to Friday morning and a quick check of Twitter and it had been seen again flying north at Selwick's Bay at Flamborough...that was it,twitch on.
 On route to Bempton,Tim rang me to say it had been seen at Staple Newk viewpoint which made me even more stressed about getting there!.
 Finally i arrived at the car park at Bempton,quickly got the kit together and headed to the New Roll Up viewpoint to some not very happy faces and the news it had flown along the cliffs and north...@*+#.
 And so ensued a long,wet wait,for another sighting and then we saw some birders running towards where we were stood and they said it was flying our way...several frantic minutes went by and nothing and then one of the lads got a phone call that it was being seen from the Grandstand viewpoint.I ran as quick as i could with my scope on my back,it was a bit knackering but got to the viewpoint to see this absolutely stunning bird gliding past along the cliff edge,so close you had to look over the edge of the cliff to see it and then it proceeded to circle around in front of us before it casually flew north along the cliffs towards Speeton and that was that.
 I just couldn't stop smiling at what i had just seen and it had the same affect on all present.I had not seen so many happy faces on a twitch for a long time.It was just surreal to see this supremely beautiful seabird just flying around the cliffs,not miles out to sea,just fantastic and a memory that will last a very long time.
 This is the first sighting of the species for myself,with 33 records in the UK up to and including 2017,with this individual most probably being the same bird seen that year at Flamborough and also summering on the Island of Sylt in the Frisian archipelago for the last few consecutive summers.
 The species breeds in the South Atlantic & Indian Oceans in huge colonies of thousands of birds and disperses north throughout the southern Oceans,north to the Tropic Of Capricorn,being recorded as a vagrant in the North Atlantic.

Adult Black-browed Albatross,What A Bird!.....Photo Courtesy Of Nick Bristow.