12:30pm. Weather: grey, cold with brisk, colder wind.
In Norfolk for compassionate reasons & a nice walk to the beach with Kim & a visit to the hide on the way back. The first feeling of winter in the air so it was especially fresh!
Carpark:
Robin - very close amongst the cars, prospecting for picnic crumbs.
Chaffinch, Woodpigeon.
Visitors' Centre:
Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Blackbird.
Freshwater Marshes:
Mute Swan, Coot, Marsh Harrier, Curlew, Snipe.
Meadow Pipit, Black-Headed Gull, Starling.
Brent Goose - 4 over, the first of many.
Shelduck, Pied Wagtail, Ringed Plover.
Tidal Marshes:
Redshank & Sanderling - both quite distant, & an unusual place for the sanderling.
Linnet, Shoveler.
Little Grebe - at least 5 tucked in against the separating wall of the tidal marsh.
Pheasant, Black-Tailed Godwit, Little Egret, Skylark.
Beach:
An excellent selection of waders on the tide line amongst the shellfish beds.
Oystercatcher, Bar-Tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Turnstone, Knot, Dunlin.
Herring Gull, Common Gull & Crow - along the beach.
Eider, Great-Crested Grebe, Great Black-Backed Gull & Cormorant - over or in the sea.
Snow Bunting - heading back up the beach we joined a group of people avidly watching the sand where they pointed out a lively group of the buntings.
Island Hide:
Teal, Wigeon, Pintail.
Bewick's Swan - four flew in spectacularly as we watched the other wildfowl, a great & unexpected site tick.
Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Grey Heron, Gadwall.
Carpark:
Goldfinch.
Afterwards at Chosely Drying Barns:
Pink-Footed Goose & Collared Dove.
51 species.
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