A recent 3 day trip to North Norfolk produced 90 species and 9 year ticks. Sea birds were certainly on the move in some very windy conditions.
A number of Bonxie and Arctic Skua were on the move along with a few Manx Shearwater and many, many terns. Several Little Tern were still around. A few young Mediterranean Gull passed by Cley Coastguards along with a good selection of waders, a single Red-throated Diver and Guillemot, plenty of Fulmar and Gannet. I found a Spoonbill on Blakeney Fresh Marsh and a few migrant warblers.
Titchwell produced a few Curlew Sandpiper, 5 Spoonbill, Little Stint, Red Kite, 8 Swift, Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret and 12 other wader species.
The past few days I’ve spent local birding. At Staunton Harold Reservoir (29th) I had 7 Yellow-legged Gull and a late juvenile Common Tern. A Common Whitethroat and a single Chiffchaff. Little Egrets reduced to one single bird.
On 30th August only 3 adult Yellow-legged Gull, but an increase in Chiffchaff , with at least 10 birds in with the tit flock.
At Willington DWT Reserve at least 10 Common Tern, a Great White Egret, a Hobby, Common Whitethroat, a calling Redshank, 2 Common Snipe, 6 Chiffchaff and a Cetti’s Warbler.