Stonechat, that is! We'd met early and walked out on the Nelson Head track, hoping to find some migrant flickers (or better!) On the way out to the dunes we came across a few Hares and a confiding pair of Muntjacs, but little in the way of birds. We walked east to the plantation, with just a few juvenile Stonechats to point the cameras at. Buzzards, Kestrels and a dashing Sparrowhawk were interesting, as were Grayling and Gatekeeper butterflies and a Hummingbird Hawkmoth.
We met a birder who'd walked along from Winterton: he had nothing to report, so we turned back for a 'reverse grill' of the dunes. Just more 'chats, until we finally found
some evidence of migration in the form of three Wheatears.
It was still early, so we drove home via Hickling. A walk around the reserve gave us distant views of Cranes and Great White Egrets, and slightly better ones of a Green Sandpiper by the new scrape.
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