The car park is empty when we arrive at 6 am on a very warm morning.
A walk up to the beach where we find plenty of Turnstone,Oystercatcher,Sandling & a flock of Common Scoter fly past,it is very calm at sea & the beach is empty but very pleasant to be here.
Off now in search of the target bird,as we walk past Tidal Marsh it is alive with over 40 or more Little Egrets,later on we see the trees at the back of the Marsh are just awash with them,funny to see a green tree just turn white.
On to Fresh Marsh where the Lesser Yellowlegs is found on the Tern Island without to much trouble to give us all a nice year tick.
With the water level very low the place is full of bird life & we see Bar & Blacktail Godwit,Curlew,Green & Common Sandpiper plus Redshank, Avocet, Dunlin also Ruff & 5 Spoonbill drop in & stay active for a change so all very nice, still not a lot of people here so it was a real pleasure to just sit & watch all that was going on out on the Marsh.
Before we leave a Little Gull is seen along with Grey & Golden Plover also a few Bearded Tit are picked out as they dropped out of the reeds onto the mud to feed.
We shoot over to Cley & spot a very nice Spotted Redshank that gave us the second year tick of the day.
That is all we got in the way of ticks but another 5 Spoonbill drop in, that was nice then a fellow birder thinks he has a Buff-breasted Sandpiper but after a few people had got a view of the bird it turns out to be a Knot.shame that as it would have been a lifer.
There were many Green Sandpipers, a single Whimbrel, also seen Greenshank.to finish off a very nice relaxing day. Only 2 year ticks but so nice to be out & about birding after the last couple of weeks merry go round.
A walk up to the beach where we find plenty of Turnstone,Oystercatcher,Sandling & a flock of Common Scoter fly past,it is very calm at sea & the beach is empty but very pleasant to be here.
Off now in search of the target bird,as we walk past Tidal Marsh it is alive with over 40 or more Little Egrets,later on we see the trees at the back of the Marsh are just awash with them,funny to see a green tree just turn white.
On to Fresh Marsh where the Lesser Yellowlegs is found on the Tern Island without to much trouble to give us all a nice year tick.
With the water level very low the place is full of bird life & we see Bar & Blacktail Godwit,Curlew,Green & Common Sandpiper plus Redshank, Avocet, Dunlin also Ruff & 5 Spoonbill drop in & stay active for a change so all very nice, still not a lot of people here so it was a real pleasure to just sit & watch all that was going on out on the Marsh.
Before we leave a Little Gull is seen along with Grey & Golden Plover also a few Bearded Tit are picked out as they dropped out of the reeds onto the mud to feed.
We shoot over to Cley & spot a very nice Spotted Redshank that gave us the second year tick of the day.
That is all we got in the way of ticks but another 5 Spoonbill drop in, that was nice then a fellow birder thinks he has a Buff-breasted Sandpiper but after a few people had got a view of the bird it turns out to be a Knot.shame that as it would have been a lifer.
There were many Green Sandpipers, a single Whimbrel, also seen Greenshank.to finish off a very nice relaxing day. Only 2 year ticks but so nice to be out & about birding after the last couple of weeks merry go round.
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| 2 of the Spoonbill |
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| Spoonbill in flight |
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| Lesser Yellowlegs |
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