When we arrive a couple of birders are looking at the Larch trees right by where we parked the car so no walking to do here we hope.
After a little time we see at least 15 Crossbills in the first tree most are female & juveniles but just one is a nice colourful male, they fly on & off the tree so we get good views of them, but Alas no sign of any two barred amongst them.But a year tick for me with the Crossbills.
We hang about for some time & get to talk to some people that we bump into from time to time which was nice, but we give up here & head to Kelling where there has been another sighting of a two-barred.
When we get there it is quite packed with birders with the same aim as our self to see the Two-barred, we give it over two hours of our time but all we got was some Butterflies & two steam trains puffing away as they past us. somebody posted that they had seen the target at about 10, 17 am but with well over 50 birders all watching at that time at this spot & nobody else got a hint of a sight I think not.
So now it's off to Cley to look for a Wood Sandpiper & Curlew Sandpiper seen at Pat's pool.
After scanning the scrape we see no sign of the birds at all, plenty of Bl-t Godwits, Knot, plus Common & Green Sandpipers plus loads of Avocets.
With no luck looking for the targets we head off to Titchwell & head to Parrinder hide, before we get to the hide two Curlew Sandpipers are picked out by Brian, so year tick number two for the day for me & a year tick for Jimmy as well.
We see 17 Spoonbills plus a few Spotted Redshank also loads of Dunlin & Godwits plus two Little- ringed Plovers but no sign of a wood Sandpiper I need one for a tick so I will have to look somewhere else later on this week, they seem to be reported all over the place so I hope it will not be to hard to find one.
Over all a funny day, with a lot of time spent in the car going to search for a lifer for Jimmy & myself, & then just trying for a couple of year ticks, still we don't dip very often so that is the nature of the game,
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| No birds but the trains helped to pass the time looking for them. |
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| Small Skipper |
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| Small Blue |
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