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Sabine's Gull, Saltburn, Nov' 2000 © Paul Hackett


First-winter female Pied Wheater, Gibraltar Point, Lins, Nov' 2000 © Mark Thomas

All images were video grabs taken with Sony PC3 and Leica 20x Apo scope (c.200x images).


Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Flamborough Head © Mark Thomas

All images were video grabs taken with Sony PC3 and Leica 20x Apo scope (c.200x images).

"This bird was thought by some observers to be nominate P.inornatus due to its bright tertials and double wind bars. The bird lacked any yellow in its supercillia and had an all dark bill - both strong characteristics of P.i.humei. The call was the down slurred monosylabic "disweee" typical of humei. The id was clinched when the bird was caught by the Flamborough Head Bird Group and positively identified as Humes Yellow-browed Warbler, this record constitutes the second bird which has been caught at Flamborough in the past few years." Mark Thomas