Meet up with Brian at 5am & head to Titchwell Norfolk for a nice long day birding, on the way we stop to watch a nice Barn Owl sitting on a gate post & then flying off & swooping down to catch something, we never get feed up watching Barn Owls.
Next up a Little Owl is seen sitting on a pole by Choseley barns so a good start to the day.
On arrival at Titchwell we have a quick look around Meadow trail for any sighting of a Yellow- browed Warbler we also had a good look in the car park area as one had been reported there, we don't spend to long looking and never saw one, so we head to the beach where we spend a good couple of hours watching the Sanderling running about the beach & looking out to sea where we see Scoter, Gannet, a good few Eider. back on the beach we see Turnstone, Oystercatcher,Dunlin,at least six Grey Plover nothing to add a tick but a really nice morning spent just watching the birds go about their business on a fairly warm morning.Back up to the hide we spot a nice Curlew Sandpiper & another Grey Plover also seen along with all the usual birds.
News comes on the pager that a Radde's Warbler was at Holkham Pines so off we head to look for it.
Parked up & off we go for the long walk to where the bird has been seen 3/4 of the way down the track the pager goes off a Isabelline Shrike is at Beeston Regis common,so the three of us all agree that we have more chance of seeing that than the Radde's so a long walk back to the car, it's about 13 miles away but we do find the place with ease and park up & we are only a few yards away now from seeing another lifer. A crowd of maybe fifty are here with a few people that we know, the bird is showing very well a very nice looking bird indeed.
As we are getting our feel of the Shrike a few of the birders start to head off at pace & we pick up from one of them that there has been a sighting of a Pallas's Warbler just up the road in Sheringham. we all need this for a year tick so after a short time we also go for it, only trouble we have very little info as to where it is.
It's up & down the road a few times before we find the right place, once there we find the bird straight away for some really good views of another cracking little bird.
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| Pallas's Warbler |
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| Just a record shot is all I could get of the Shrike |
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| Grey Plover |
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| Ruff |
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| Curlew Sandpiper |
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| Black-headed Gull |
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