Year ticks for the 'Summer Wine Crew' - but not the ones you think!

A long session divided between Cley and Holkham Park provided some much-needed exercise and a couple of year ticks. Bishop's Hide gave us fleeting glimpses of a Water Pipit (photo by Brian) and the usual large mixed flock of Avocets and Godwits, while East Bank was fairly unproductive. 

New for the year, we enjoyed watching Spoonbills at both locations, nesting at Holkham and feeding close by on Pat's at Cley. Arguably our 'best' bird was the adult drake Ferruginous Duck on the Hall lake at Holkham - we had to wait half an hour for it to wake up! Returning to Cley we saw a couple of good-looking Ruff and a very distant Little Ringed Plover.