Wryneck at Landguard. 250 year ticks up.

The thought is that a Wryneck may drop in at Landguard sometime today, so we set off in the hope that will happen. When we arrive it is dull & wet, undeterred we spread out & walk both the beach & all around the trees by the observatory, while we are here we are shown a Pied Flycatcher that had been trapped in the nets, a fellow kindly came down with the bird to show us before releasing it, always nice to get a close up view of any bird that they trap.
A very friendly Golden Plover walks about on the sand to give us some close up photo shots. we see another Pied Fly, along with Whinchat & Wheatear. but the weather is not on our side so we head up the A12 not really knowing where we are heading to, with the rain still about we decide it's a safe bet to get in a hide at Minsmere.
A lot of birds here, we see Greenshank, Redshank, Ruff, Spotted Redshank,Common & Green Sandpiper, Godwits, also a family of Water Rail show well.
On the pager two Wryneck are reported back at Landguard, so it's off back to where we started the morning. On arrival people have the bird in view, it's hard to see at first but it flies up & onto the Observatory fence before just dropping down onto the small bush & then onto the ground for a short view but a good one.I get three more good views of it before we leave for home. the roads are flooding as we drive,  the rain is really coming down now, we think how lucky we are to have found our bird before this lot hits us.

Friendly Golden Plover