A very chilled day!

Cormorant on the boating lake, Wells-next-Sea.

A very chilled day indeed, or put another way - a crap day!

How very different from a week ago!

Got up seriously late and had eggs and beans on toast with a cup of tea around 11.30am and didn't leave the house until 1pm!!!

Cruised around the back roads looking for a snow goose. Drove through Amner and found a big flock of grey partridges feeding with loads of collared doves and wood pigeons on the wide grass verges before you reach the village. Found a very distant Common Buzzard sitting in a tree by a field near Fring. Weaved my way around the villages, Sherbourne, Docking, Brancaster and then on to Burnham Overy to park the car in the layby to join John Furse, Eddie Myers and others scoping for the Rough-legged Buzzard over the marshes. First class banter from them both - in fact this was the highlight of the day! The buzzard didn't show in the dismal, rain filled skies. Re-located to Wells woods with John and searched everywhere for a good bird for the day, but sadly in vain. We did have at least 3 treecreepers though, along with two fly over Redpolls (I only heard one though) a few goldcrests flitting about, long tailed, great and coal tit, a blackcap, several blackbirds and hedge sparrows and that was about it, oh and a cormorant on the boating lake by the carpark. There were as many dogs as there were birds!

Eddie Myers and John Furse, Burnham Overy.

Drove to parents. My father had bought mother her first digital camera - god help me! Spent the evening trying to explain how it all worked. I can see several phone calls coming up over the next few days, weeks, months!!!! HELPPPPPP!!!!!