Holy Island

The island safe crossing time was until 22:15 so the idea was that we could have a nice leisurely drive up to holy island and then be able to spend a few hours wandering about, plus it was a nice sunny day too. Suprisingly there wasnt much bird life about that we could see...probably due to the 100s of tourists swamping the island it was really really busy (too busy for us) so we had a late lunch and headed back down the coast to boulmer and parked up on boulmer steel for a few hours, it was so peaceful compared to where we'd just been. Took the dog for a walk along the path up to longhoughton steel but she wasnt too amused by the metal bird sculpture fixed on the wall next to the field gates..she gave it hell. 3 pied wagtails, 1 stonechat, usual culprits on the beach, 12+ eiders, 4 oyster catchers, herring gulls and 1 grey heron. It seemed to be pretty quiet with birds today, or were we just in the wrong places at the wrong times? We go away for a short break next sunday for 5 days (birthday treat) so ive booked us a cottage in melkridge where we've stayed about 2 months ago so it will be a nice break, plus we're off to an engagement party in cottingham, hull the weekend after that, so its a busy 2 weeks.