Day in Norfolk for two ticks

An early start See's us sitting at Wolferton Triangle before 7am in the hope of getting a late tick & finally picking up the Golden Pheasant.
After a good hour we all get to hear the bird call but no sighting again. So time to head off to Snettisham.
It's a long walk to where the Pallid Harrier has been seen over the last few days but the signs are not good when we meet a volunteer on the way to be told that it had not been seen yet & it had not been seen yesterday & that turns out to be the case for us as we miss out on what would have been a lifer for me.The place was alive with thousands of Golden Plovers & Pink-footed Geese plus Shell Ducks everywhere we looked, also many Lapwings plus other stuff walking about on the mud flats.
I must say a big thank you to Len for giving me a lift back to the car park it was greatly appreciated.
Choseley drying barns next to get great views of two Rough-legged Buzzard flying very close to us, funny how that happens when you don't need the bird for a tick you nearly always get to see one, I am not complaining as it is always nice to see these great birds as they circle around above.
While watching here we see at least 7 Red-legged Partridge in the field with a good few Hares running about.
A quick call in at Brancaster Staithe for Brian needed the Red-necked Grebe for a year tick & it is seen within minutes of arrival. So a quick tick & we are on our way to Titchwell, nothing much about as the water level is high, so we head up to the beach but once again not to much about only a few Red-breasted Merganser & some Grebe are seen. On looking up 2 Bewick's Swan fly over, I love these birds so nice to see them.The Robin in the car park came to see if we had any food for it & of course we had, it never fails to show when we come here, well it looks like the same one to us.
A drive to the  East bank at Cley nets us the second tick of the day when after being told that the Grey Phalarope had been lost to view Brian soon gets us all on to the bird without to much fuss, I have never seen a Phalarope out of the water before so this turns out to be a little cracker for me.

The Grey Phalarope

The light was fading fast but we call in at fishers fleet Kings Lynn in the hope of seeing the Iceland Gull, plenty of Gulls about but we never picked out the Iceland. It's a two hour drive home now & with road works it puts another 1/2 hour on that, a bonus day out with the boys greatly enjoyed, role on the next one.

The car park Robin