28th December 2015 (Norfolk)

Another excellent days birding along the North Norfolk Coast today: 

Drove to Titchwell this morning and had a Barn Owl from the car window near Dunton.

Walked from Titchwell to Thornham Point and had another Barn Owl, 3 each of Pintail and Spotted Redshank and singles of Peregrine, Kingfisher and Siskin. At the point there were plenty of Grey Plovers and Sanderling, 4 Egyptian Geese and a Goosander, but there was no sign of the shore larks.

Barn Owl - Titchwell

Second stop was Choosley Drying Barns where before long we had distant views of a juvenile Rough-Legged Buzzard. Good to get views of the in-flight features as last year I only saw them on ground.

Rough-Legged Buzzard - Choosley Drying Barns

Went to the Holme Dunes and finally got good views of the 3 Shore Larks. Also in Thornham Bay, there was a large flock Twites and a flock of Egyptian Geese.

 Shore Larks - Holme Dunes

Twite - Thornham Harbour

Stopped off at Holkham but failed to locate the red-rumped swallow that was re-reported. Only bird of note here was a Red Kite.

Red Kite - Holkham

Walked to the central hides in Cley Marshes where amongst the Pink-Footed and Brent Geese, I had 3 Tundra race Bean Geese, 1 Black Brant and 6 White-Fronted Geese.

Tundra Bean Geese - Cley Marshes

White Fronted Geese - Cley Marshes

I believe the goose in front of the adult White-Fronted is an abbarrent Pink-Footed with white at the base of the bill?

Black Brant - Cley Marshes

Final stop of the day was Wells-Next-The-Sea where we hoped the red-rumped swallow would reappear, but again no luck. A shag in the harbour was the best bird managed.