Carl Buttle

Excellent days birding Desert Wheatear Kessingland Beach, Hume’s Warbler Southwold Churchyard, Ring Ouzel, Firecrest, Little Stint Benacre

Little Stint, Spotted Redshank, Knot Benacre Broad, Dartford Warbler cliff top north of Broad, 2 Firecrest copse east of Beach Farm. Absolutely thousands of Ladybirds about

The male Desert Wheatear at Cley today, a very obliging bird

Nutcracker performed well this morning at Mundesley, my first in Britain since Westleton 41 years ago, and just like that one totally unafraid of the birders

Scaup Benacre Broad, 2 Spotted Redshank Covehithe Broad, Firecrest copse east of Beach Farm, 3 Swallow, 2 House Martin

2 juvenile White-fronted Geese pool below Pakefield Coast Guard lookout

The Isabelline Shrike showed well this morning at The Hollies, Pakefield, supporting cast of SEOwl on the beach and a Snow Bunting further south, 2 Great Egrets in/off, also a very elusive Lapland Bunting

The juv Isabelline Shrike at Pakefield, photo taken by Chris Derby

2 Jack Snipe, Clouded Yellow pool below Heathland’s, Kessingland

Jack Snipe, Rock Pipit pool below Heathland’s, Kessingland, Clouded Yellow north of Benacre Sluice

Meet our tame Pheasant, he comes into the garden every day to be fed and sits on our patio table looking in the window to let you know he’s there

Purple Sandpiper north of Southwold Pier and 4 Sanderling Easton Broad

2 Curlew Sandpipers, Garganey, 3 Ruff, Rock Pipit Benacre Broad

Pectoral Sandpiper, Little Stint, 4 Ruff, 9 Dunlin Benacre Broad this morning, the Pec was a lot nearer the hide today