Mid evening walk on Saturday 18th May on the very top of Osmotherly Moor at 18:30 produced excellent, breathtaking views of a male and female Golden Plover with a chick in toe !
Full summer plumage ( northern) worn by male with gold spangled back separated by acute white line above eyes, with black face neck and belly. Female calling to responding chick as male perched sentinel- like on rock.
Rewarded on descent with an unknown raptor going away - dark with angular wings in slow flight, then a Short - Eared Owl.