Norfolk

We haven't gone up to the Norfolk coast for quite a while, and as a few things had been seen, Colin and I decided to travel up on Sunday. There had been a lot of overnight rain, and it was quite misty and murky, but by the time we got near the coast it had cleared and we actually had a nice day weather-wise.
Titchwell was busy by the time we arrived with a lot of cars in the car parks. A stroll up to the fresh marsh produced a Robins and Chiffchaffs in the bushes but not much else apart from a family of Bearded Tits. We were told that the Red Necked Phalarope had apparently disappeared behind one of the islands-it later transpired that it had flown off. So one of our targets had gone. Lots of Ruff, some Godwits, Golden Plover, Avocets and Dunlin were on the marsh, and I picked out a couple of juvenile Mediterranean Gulls.
The sea was a bit quiet, despite the light north easterlies. Gannets and Common Scoter were flying around, and there were a couple of lingering Sandwich Terns. We missed some Skuas and divers which were seen much earlier.
A spell in Parrinder Hide failed to produce a lone Purple Sandpiper hiding in the vegetation on the salt marsh. We also missed Little Stints here. Several Pied Wagtails were checked in the vain hope that one would be a Citrine.
On the Fen Trail, I spent some time looking for Willow Emeralds, which were not showing but got a nice image of a Common Darter. No-one managed to locate the Yellow Browed Warbler that had been around for a day or two.

News of an Arctic Warbler at Wells Wood would have been tempting, were it not for the high cost of parking, added to which it can be hard work finding anything, so we went to Cley instead.
Here we were able to finally get a year tick with a Red Necked Phalarope, but unfortunately it remained on the far side of Simmond's Scrape and the distant photos weren't all that great. Had a couple of Curlew Sandpipers and Little Stints, a few Snipe and a Yellow Wagtail, but we didn't stay long.
We finished up at Cavenham Heath just in time for a brief thunderstorm.

Once the rain had cleared we scanned the field near the river, picking up 13 Stone Curlews, though numbers were far higher as 30+ had been seen earlier.

Returning to the car I got a nice surprise for the plane spotters, with an OV10 Bronco flying over.
I last saw one of these at Mildenhall some time around 1979.