Ortolan bunting and Wryneck find

 Today myself, Joe Griffin and Emma Rigate decided to head down the point in the morning. Once we had arrived at the lifeboat cottages we decided to work the area for a while with due to quite a few species being present and no other birders. At 0953 we decided to walk through the parade ground in an attempt to flush any birds hiding in the grass. This worked and a bunting flew out of the grass calling with a distinct two tone call. This got my attention as it wasn’t like anything I’d heard in the field before. Luckily the bird flew up into a bush only a short distance away and allowed all the observers present to get onto the bird I immediately called it out as a ortolan bunting but with no prior experience with this species I wanted a second opinion so rang Zach Pannifer and send him to back of camera images which he quickly confirmed my identification and I put out the news. The bird had flown towards the lifeboat cottages so we headed around to try get another view of the bird at which point myself and Joe Griffin simultaneously got onto a wryneck in the centre of the lifeboat cottages on the pathing stones! Two fantastic finds in the space of a few minutes. What a feeling!