Norfolk Day 21.10.22

 Day trip to North Norfolk with Rick Stead. Setting off in very misty conditions wasn't the best start but by mid-afternoon the light had improved.

First stop was Wells Woods, but very little about so off to Garden Drove where numerous Goldcrests and finches were found, but no unusual migrants. A check over Warham Greens before we drove east, coffee at Cley and then a walk along the East Bank. Here, the first big hitter of the day, a Long Billed Dowitcher, an American wader. Plenty of other waders about including huge number of Golden Plover at Arnold's Marsh.

Out to sea, gulls, razorbills, gannets and several Red throated divers before back to the car and a long wander to the end of Holkham Pines, almost to Gun Hill for a selection of warblers, all in a single area by the Three Sycamores: Pallas's Warbler, Wood Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Firecrest and many more Goldcrests.

A day when quality outweighed quantity with several additions to the year list.

Species.

1. Red throated diver
2. Little grebe
3. Gannet
4. Cormorant
5. Little egret
6. Grey heron
7. Mute swan
8. Greylag Goose
9. Canada goose
10. Brent goose
11. Shelduck
12. Mallard
13. Shoveler
14. Gadwall
15. Teal
16. Wigeon
17. Red kite
18. Marsh harrier
19. Common buzzard
20. Kestrel
21. Red legged partridge
22. Pheasant
23. Moorhen
24. Coot
25. Avocet
26. Golden plover
27. Lapwing
28. Redshank
29. Black tailed godwit
30. Curlew
31. Jack snipe
32. Ruff
33. Long billed dowitcher
34. Black headed gull
35. Common gull
36. Herring gull
37. Lesser black backed gull
38. Great black backed gull
39. Razorbill
40. Wood pigeon
41. Skylark
42. Meadow pipit
43. Pied wagtail
44. Grey wagtail
45. Wren
46. Dunnock
47. Robin
48. Redwing
49. Blackbird
50. Blackcap
51. Cetti's warbler
52. Wood warbler
53. Chiffchaff
54. Pallas's warbler
55. Goldcrest
56. Firecrest
57. Great tit
58. Blue tit
59. Coal Tit
60. Long tailed tit
61. Bearded reedling
62. Magpie
63. Jay
64. Carrion Crow
65. Rook
66. Jackdaw
67. Starling
68. Chaffinch
69. Linnet
70. Goldfinch
71. Siskin.

Juvenile Herring Gull

Curlew, Wells harbour

Goldfinch and Chaffinch in misty conditions

Wigeon from the East Bank

distant Long billed dowitcher

Long billed dowitcher

Dunlin at Cley

more Dunlin

Redshank, 2 Black tailed godwits and a male Teal

Golden plover

Common darter

Redshank

Black tailed godwit

Curlew

Little egret

distant Ruff and Reeves at Cley.