Windy old day at Cley for Little Auk

It takes us two & a half hours to arrive at Cley today to find it is blowing a wind around 50 mph in a Westerly direction we expected these conditions & hoped for some good sea watching.
We spend over 3 hours on the car park beach & it's freezing cold before we find a bit of space in the brick shelter for some protection.
I pick up a year tick when a flock of over  30 Snow Bunting fly in & around the Shelter & over the time we are here they keep flying up & down past us.
 So a good start to the day for me.Plenty of Great Skua fly past at regular intervals & a small flock of 4 came in very close to the beach for the best views I have had of them. We expected to see a few Auks go past but all we got was just one Little Auk ,that gave us all a year tick but we hoped for a lot more.
We are really cold now so we give up our space in the shelter to head up to the visitor centre for a Bacon bap & a pot of tea & to warm up before going back to the beach for another 2 hours, but nothing is happening out at sea just a few Kittiwake & some Common Scoter plus some Gannets & nice to see a few Seals close in as the giant waves washed over them. Then a nice juvenile Glaucous Gull lands near to us on the beach.

Of course this is Brian's photo of the Glaucous Gull

We don't need one for a tick but always nice to see & it put a gloss on the day for us before we set off for home a bit disappointed but still 2 ticks pushes the year total up.

Snow Bunting