Looking back over the past week there were a number of interesting sightings.
9th Saturday - small groups of Siskin and Redpoll and c60 Pink Feet Geese SE (JP).
10th Sunday - at least 1 Whooper Swan called as it flew unseen over the trees in the car park (JP), and later 3 Common Cranes went south at 9.54hrs (D. Standish)
11th Monday - a skein of c160 Pink Feet Geese flew SE at 09.00hrs (K. Bannister) followed by c60 west (JP), and 50 east at 18.30hrs (D. Standish). A Willow Tit was seen on the embankment at the wader scrape (SE3709). Butterflies included 12 Comma and 14 Small Copper (C. Parkin).
14th Thursday - Little Egret, 4 Red-legged Partridge, a single Wigeon and a Tawny Owl that flew across the scrape at dusk (D. Standish).
15th Friday - c75 Wood Pigeons headed south at 08.39hrs (K. Bannister). Later, 5 Jays a Water Rail and a Willow Tit, at the wader scrape viewpoint (SE3709) (DM Smith).
16th - A Marsh Tit was singing near the steps to the car park at 10.55hrs along with 4 Cetti's Warbler. 2 Common and 5 LBB Gulls were present and, in addition to 2 Cormorants on the scrape, 5 flew south, 4 came in from the south and 4 more came in from the north (JP).
At mid-day a single Wigeon was present and a calling Rock Pipit flew west (CG).
Then c170 Pink Feet flew west at 17.20hrs quickly followed by c150 the same way at 17.25hrs (D. Standish).
Hello to Chris Elmer, I hope you got back to Great Yarmouth ok, best wishes
Cliff
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