(Lifer ) Citrine Wagtail at Minsmere.

 A lifer is the target at Minsmere a Citrine Wagtail  means the three of us had to head there .As we get nearer to Minsmere a we run into a heavy mist,on arrival at 7 am we walk down to East hide & the mist is not going to lift for another hour.
As the sun starts to burn off the mist we get to see more of the scrape & see loads of Black- tailed Godwits & a single Bar-tailed a few Ringed Plover,Dunlin,Golden Plover,Common & Green Sandpiper,Avocet,Ruff,a few Spotted Redshank,a Water Rail walked about in front of the hide.
A Cuckoo & a hunting Peregrine fly across the scrape but no sign of the target bird.
It's a good 2 hours before we get a sighting of the Wagtail as it shows for a few seconds as it walks up a bank before it flies off to another scrape. We manage to find it again a long way off on number 9 marker scrape & this time we get great scope views for the next 2 hours before it flies over to North hide where Jimmy manged to find it again & got a lot of people onto it after we had walked round to the hide.
Off home but we stop off in the cafe for a coffee & Brian just couldn't resist a giant portion of Ruby's apple & blackcurrant crumble at £2.80 I only mention it because he never stopped going on about how it was the greatest thing he had ever tasted all the way home & he recommended it to everybody on his blog.

Photo of a Citrine Wagtail