Three year ticks today! With early morning drizzle, an easterly wind and work going on by all the hides on the reserve, Norman and I spent an hour sea watching at the Coastguards. We were rewarded with close views of Red-throated Divers (most in summer plumage) Razorbills, Guillemots, Gannets and Little Gulls: best of all an Arctic Skua chased a group of Sandwich Terns quite close in. A Bonxie was too far out to photograph...
A walk along the Iron Road produced a couple of possible Caspian Gulls and dozens of Mipits but little else, so we returned to the VC for coffee, followed by a stroll out to the sea along the East Bank. A Razorbill and lots more Gannets were close in and a couple of fly-bys seemed good for winter-plumaged Black Terns. A drake Eider was another pleasant surprise! Walsey Hills was next, where a brief wait was rewarded by views of a flittery Yellow-browed Warbler - I managed just a single photo!
We finished the day at Kelling Quag, where a female Stonechat posed nicely, as did the eleven Red Kites and two Buzzards that circled low overhead! (Remember when both were scarce in Norfolk?)
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