Mid Saturday afternoon a visiting birder to the Spurn Point area had seen what he thought to be a Yellow-browed Warbler then, after taking some pictures of the bird, it became apparent, after looking at the photograph`s by expert`s, that the bird was indeed a Two-barred Greenish Warbler! About 20 or so birders managed to see the bird that afternoon. With all the members of our team never having seen this species in Britain an urgent plan was put together and an early start was planned. With Craig B driving, myself, Bob K & Kevin C we set off on a wet, gloomy, dark autumn morning. As daylight came the rain stopped and as we got nearly to Hull news that the warbler was still present cheered the mood up considerably. As we headed towards the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust/Canal scrape area a crowd of some 80 birders could be see filling the road and watching something in the surrounding bushes, was this the warbler? We quickly gathered our equipment together and joined the throng and had really good views of another rare warbler to our British shores. This little sprite should be safely on its way to winter in south East Asia by now probably having been born in Siberia this year. After 10 minutes or so the bird was lost to view and what followed was managing to get into a position to see the bird as the crowd swelled to around 150/200 birders. The warbler kept moving all around the various small trees and bushes and if you were in the right place at the right time allowed some really good observations. The rain then began to sweep in but after some sustenance, and a brief rest we went back out and really all enjoyed some great views of the bird, sometimes right above our heads! We had been in the area for around 6.5 hours and had met lots of birders that we had not seen for quite a number of years. By 4-00pm we decided to go Sammy`s Point to try to see some Short-eared Owl`s. With our own owl expert Bob K leading the way it was not long before I saw one take off and land in the next field. What a lovely bird to observe, then Bob found another two birds roosting in the paddock and giving really excellent opportunities for the photographers. A further 5 owls seen in flight being hassled by the local crows made a very healthy total of 8 Short-eared Owls seen on our visit. These birds have all just come over the sea from the continent to enjoy our Autumn/Winter, they were quite magnificent! It was going dark as we left the Spurn area having all had a new bird on our British list and having enjoyed a great day out. Dave O.