ML608885022

Observation details

At 07:38, whilst walking from Rose Cottage towards Sykes Field, I heard a bird calling which struck me as different. The call was a loud, rich, disyllabic trill, which I struggled to work out where it was originating from. My initial reaction was that it sounded Nuthatch like, but at the same time it obviously wasn't. As I couldn't see the bird and had absolutely no idea what was making the call, I used Merlin Sound ID to record the bird calling which produced no results (other than for the Wren also calling in the recording). After hearing the bird about five times I realised that it was probably a wader, but at this point it had almost certainly flown over me. I never saw the bird. Around 10 minutes later I heard the radio message from the Warren that an Upland Sandpiper had flown south and I checked the calls of Upland Sandpiper online once I found some signal to confirm that this was what I had heard. Most recordings of Upland Sandpiper calls have trisyllabic notes, yet unusually, each call I heard was disyllabic. The first record for Spurn and Yorkshire. To my knowledge, 9 people saw or heard the bird, with two record photographs also taken by another observer.

Additional species

• Eurasian Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
• Common Wood-Pigeon Columba palumbus