A fun couple of days away with Mag and Christian started productively with two
Parrot Crossbills at Santon Warren, an adult
Black Brant at Cley and four
Lapland Buntings at Weybourne our haul on the first day. Cley also provided a first-winter
Caspian Gull, a
Great Skua and a few
Golden Plovers, while
Brents numbered around 500. The Tuesday didn't go quite so smoothly, much time being wasted looking in vain for a Shorelark at Holme, but we did get a few
Snow Buntings there and a nice flock of 20
Twite at Thornham Harbour and a seawatch at Sheringham produced a couple of
Great Skuas and a few
Red-throated Divers.
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| ♂ Parrot Crossbill at Santon Warren |
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| adult Black Brant at Cley - my first of this taxa; interesting bird with an incomplete collar (and I think I'm looking too hard for grey tones on the upperparts?) |
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| first-winter Caspian Gull at Cley |
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| Twite at Thornham Harbour |
