Brian gave us an early call asking if we wanted to go to Cavenham for the Stone-Curlews.
So a quick cup of tea and some toast and on our way around 6am.
The early start pays off when we arrive to find a fellow birder already has a few Stone-Curlew
and we are soon onto them and we spot 5 in all.
I need a Woodlark for a year tick but to my surprise, I never heard or saw any, Brian heard one while Jimmy and I walked about in the hope of getting a year tick, Jimmy already heard one a couple of weeks ago when I again missed it.
We see a few Wheatear and Stonechat plus 0ne Lesser Redpoll, a Red-legged Partridge, and a
nice Red Kite along with Kestrel gets us off to a good start for the morning.
Off now to Lakenheath 20 minutes up the road.
We soon pick out 3 Garganey way over the back of the pool but they are well hidden by the reeds so a long way off, as we walk around the water opposite the east forest we spot 3 more to give us the most that we have seen in one go, 4 Drakes and 2 female.
Water Pipit had been seen yesterday here but we never found them.
4 Great Egrets along with a few Little Egrets are seen to round off the morning.
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| Stone-Curlew |
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| One of the 6 Garganeys seen. |
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