The aim is to look for maybe a Ring Ouzel or hope for anything else that might drop in.
We are not seeing a lot about only the odd Wheatear plus quite a lot of Linnet,the feeling is that it's not going to be a great day for us when the pager tells us that four Dotterel had hung about over night at Kessingland.
So as this is Jimmy's target bird for the year we are off like a flash, it takes a bit longer than we expected but when we arrive & park at the caravan park, we are only a couple of minutes away from seeing another lifer for both Jimmy & myself.
A small group of birders have got the Dotterel walking about on the beach not to far away from them , so scope out & we are watching the bird that gives us a really great view.
After spending a time just lapping up this lifer it's time to have a go for the reported Ouzels ,we get our self over the sand dunes to scan a field that we had been told that was the place to see them, that proves to be a good tip off when we see the first of 5 Ring Ouzels over the next hour or so 2 females & 3 males are seen.
We just had to have another look at the Dotterel as we head back to the car.
While hear I also get my first Whitethroat tick of the year plus Ringed Plover for another.
With no rain about we are off to Minnsmere to round off the day we hope with maybe a tick or two.
Round to the Sand martin wall for a certain tick to start us off, plenty off Sand martins about around the wall so we hang about just to watch the birds bombing in & out of the holes in the wall.
Just time for a quick visit to one of the hides unfortunately no year ticks are seen from the hide but on the way back I get Willow Warbler for a tick & while watching some Red Deer we hear our first Cuckoo of the year, but it never showed itself to us.
So after a slow start to the trip I end it with 7 year ticks & 1 new lifer in the Dotterel.
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| Dotterel little bit far for my camera |
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| Male Ring Ouzel |
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| We all got a photo of this being so near to the hide. |
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| A Red Deer |
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