Saturday 26 June 2010

Spoonbill

Camping at Stiffkey with the Foxton White Horse crowd. Having a cup of tea recovering from with a hangover and an adult Spoonbill flies over! It was later seen to settle at Cley.

Later in the day, I took a break from Brancaster beach and went to nearby Titchwell:

Spotted Redshank x 15 in summer plumage.
Grey Plover – summer plumage.
Knot x 2000? With a few in summer plumage.
Bearded Tit x 2.
Marsh Harrier
Dunlin – a single summer plumaged bird.
Ruff
Sandwich Tern x 3.
Little Tern offshore.
Cetti’s Warbler – heard.
Common Toad
Red Admiral – several.

Elsewhere, several Little Egrets and Buzzards were noted throughout the day.