Citrine Wagtail at Holme!!!

In the eastern corner of the village carpark opposite the toilet block in Holme village this morning! Congratulations to whoever the finder was - don't know who. It was found quite a long time before the reported 11.55am, though, I have heard through the grapevine!!! Also that it was flushed by a local bird photographer apparently. It was last seen flying off west along the golfcourse towards Hunstanton. See pictures here: http://www.surfbirds.com/gallery/display.php?gallery=gallery9

Purple Heron briefly from Joe Jordon Hide, Holkham.
Temminck's Stint still at Cley.
Little Stint at Titchwell RSPB
No news on the Golden Oriole at Snettisham Coastal Park.

This evening I went to look for the Citrine Wagtail. As I pulled up in the village carpark I could see why the wagtail had favoured this patch - this rough grass carpark was completely water logged and boggy - it looked like a water meadow rather than a carpark! I then went to NOA Redwell Marsh Reserve just in case it had relocated - very little there, only a few teal, shoveler, few avocets, black headed gulls and 3 house martins. I then walked along the permissive footpath that follows the river up to the standing caravan (collared fly site) and was horrified to find a path now blocked off - the one that runs alongside the 6ft wooden panel fence that lines the caravan property, is now fenced off with a wire fence one end and trees planted the other! Also a wooden post which has 'Norfolk County Council' and 'permissive footpath' on it had been removed from somewhere and dumped in the middle of the rough ground/field adjacent to the caravan property (Redwell hide side of the caravan). Also this rough ground/field area has been stripped of all bramble bushes and reeds and very, very sadly looks like it going to be built on. Throughout my life I have watched so many pieces of land being taken in Holme for building. Huge houses are built and the majority if not all of the property owners who buy these houses only occupy them for a small proportion of the year. Much of the same all along the Norfolk coast.

Sunny tomorrow with north easterlies forecast.
High Tide, King's Lynn Docks: 6.20am and 7.3 metres (high!).