Friday, 20 March 2015

A few days in Norfolk yielded Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting, Twite, Iceland Gull and Richard's Pipit but didn't have time to go for the White-Tailed Sea Eagle unfortunately!

The Lapland & Snow Buntings showed in a field along the cliff top at Weybourne as did the Iceland Gull although the latter was far more mobile; I saw more Skylarks here than I've ever seen elsewhere, the sky was thick with them and their calls, fantastic! And so on to Salthouse where after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we latched on to at least 22 magnificent Twite, with a few Reed Buntings, that gave good views including some really close aerial manoeuvers.

The following day at Breydon Water (Suffolk I believe), one of the two Richard's Pipits was less than obliging but did stick its head out for five minutes. We'd heard that the Eagle was in the area but when you've got to go...