Its been a while since we have been out for various reasons, although a few local trips have been made clocking up some year ticks. So with the weather set to be fine all day, myself and Kevin C thought a trip into Yorkshire to Swine Moor near Beverley would be nice. A male Baikal Teal, usually from Lake Baikal in Russia, had taken up residence there, to give this bird a bit of credibility another one was also in England in Somerset. An 8am start and arriving at 9-30am on a sunny but fresh morning blew a few cobwebs away. A walk of about half a mile soon had us enjoying lots of Teal & Wigeon and after some help from the lads from Leeds, we watched the Baikal Teal that was enjoying a Sunday lie in After about an hour something spooked the all the birds and they all took to the air and when they landed, really good views of the bird was enjoyed, a very smart bird indeed. A little chat with Paul B, a fellow GM birder, had us thinking where to go next. A very smart male Yellowhammer was enjoyed as it sat out on telephone wires in the sunshine! After a short break we headed over the Humber Bridge, what a truly marvellous feat of engineering it is, and headed for another new location, East Halton Skitter where we hoped to find the long staying White Tailed Lapwing. We arrived and drove along the sea-wall searching the various little pools and foreshore for the bird without any luck. A few other birders had the same plan as us to locate the bird, but after about an hour we gave up and headed away. As often happens in birding as soon as we arrived at our next location, Alkborough, a check on the birding news, was that the bird had been found in exactly the same place as we had been an hour earlier! At Alkborough we had hoped to locate a Spoonbill that had been seen in the area recently and also Bearded Tit. After a good hours searching we had no joy with either, but about 5 Marsh Harrier`s and a flock of around 100 Barnacle Geese lots of Curlew made our visit quite good. Time to head for home after a good day`s birding. Dave O.