Jimmy has a day off work, so we make the most of it,but do not know where to head to, as nothing is being reported within our area we decide to go to Minsmere for the day.
A Surf Scoter has been seen yesterday off shore near Sizewell, we don't expect it to have hung about over night, but we may as well give it a go.
It's 100 miles & it takes us just about 2 hours before we arrive at the little car park near Sizewell power station.
There are a few people looking for the Scoter when we hit the beach, but nothing doing at the moment.
We spread out to give our self more chance of seeing the target bird, but it's one of those days where nothing much about on the sea. A flock of Scoters are seen flying past,our bird is not with them,
One of the birders tells us a Shore Lark was seen yesterday down by the open hide, so with nothing doing here we walk with him along the beach & on the way we hear some Bearded Tits, we spend some time looking over the reeds & soon see at least eight of them popping about from reed to reed,always nice to see them. also we see plenty of Meadow Pipit.
The walk down to the hide is a lot longer than I would have liked but still all for a good reason I hope.
The scrape is full of all the usual stuff, so we scan the scrape for a short while but we see no year ticks here.
It's a really pleasant day so it's no hardship being here as Jimmy said it beats work any day, we have another look up on the beach for the Shore Lark but no luck this time.
So no more ticks to add for October list but a good day out by the sea
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