2 Lifers) Great Knot + Collared Pratincole.

Out over B&Q with the wife when we get a phone call from Brian saying he will pick Jimmy & myself up in twenty minutes to shoot up to Breydon Water for the Great Knot, this being a mega & a lifer for us all, it is a quick drive home to drop the wife off with the D I Y goods, the jobs will have to wait for another day now.
Two hours later as we near Breydon the pager tell us that a Collared Pratincole is at east hide Minsmere so decision time with both being lifers, we decide as the Minsmere one has just come on the pager we think go get it now.
On arrival at the hide we find it packed out, but as people move in & out we get a seat & only have to wait a short while before the bird shows on the scrape, it's over the back so a bit to far away then we would like.
We get really good scope views & a couple of short flight views that was really nice, I take a couple of photos just for a record, but the bird was a very long way off for my camera. A large flock of Little Gulls land in front of the hide along with a Med Gull plus Spotted Redshank .

Just about see it in the middle of the two birds.

Off now to Breydon Water for the Great Knot, we pull into the rugby club car park & find we only have to walk a little over the length of the rugby pitch to join the many birders all ready here.

The target bird is soon picked out althrough not easy as the light did'nt help, it was in a group of six or seven Knots, but we pick it out as it swims away from the group for a while.

Not the best bird to see but another lifer & well worth the rush to get here.

I get a year tick as a couple of Whimbel are seen near the Knots,

So two more lifers plus a year tick on a nice warm day spent with the boys. What a great hobby this is.

Just the Collared Pratincole