What a start to the week! Hartlepool's first ever Stone Curlew, a great find by Ian this morning. A long-awaited addition to the Borough list 👌

Two Ruddy Shelducks at Greatham Creek, inland of road bridge. Egyptian Goose too teesbirds

Birding is pretty quiet at the moment, so this Small Blue provided a nice diversion today teesbirds

So we draw the curtain on the month, easily the worst May in Cleveland ever. Some nice Dotterel, single-observer Ross's Gull and L-t Skua, a handful of passage waders and no passerines. Ringing efforts by Chris on the Headland produced 1 Chiff & 1 Lesserthroat. Grim teesbirds

Glossy Ibis still at Bowesfield 18.48 teesbirds

Worth a watch 🤣

teesbirds ,Teesmouth Bird Club Reminder that the local outing to Seaton Snook is tomorrow. Meet 4.30 p.m. bottom of Zinc Works Road.

Spoonbill at the top of Greatham Creek, viewable from the road bridge teesbirds

Cattle Egret at the top end of Holme Fleet, nice find by Chris Sharp teesbirds

Eagle now circling distantly, probably over Seaton Snook teesbirds

My second species of woodpecker in Cleveland this year, sadly the best you can hope for now it seems. Lesser Spot long gone and no Greens this year so far....after just one last year. Such a rapid decline 😔 teesbirds

Three Little Stints and two Curlew Sandpipers on Seaton Snook this evening, along with several hundred Dunlin and Ringed Plover teesbirds

Another Yellow-browed, this one in the bushes at the seaward end of the Zinc Works Bushes with Col D fall on! teesbirds

Fantastic to catch up with this Black Scoter flying north this morning, my 318th species in the Borough of Hartlepool (from a total species list of 341). Many thanks to Long Nab Birder🇺🇦 for the heads-up 👌

Firecrest still present at Hartlepool Headland this morning, in Olive Street teesbirds

Shore Lark on Ferry Road now. Drive to end and look in compound on right, bird in vegetation to the right of the old railway track teesbirds