NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!

SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER.
Apologies, bird news posted late, due to personal circumstances (see next post)


Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
ISABELLINE SHRIKE 1w (probably Daurian Shrike) still in hedge near pond at Beeston Common.
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL male/1w (A.S.) at drinking pool, BLYTH'S REED WARBLER (A.S.) in brambles & silver birches just north of main track by pool beyond boating lake, PALLAS'S WARBLERS x 3, Tree Pipit, Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Crossbills x 3, HUME'S YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER by main track west of drinking pool, NORTHERN TREECREEPER at drinking pool, Richard's Pipit, Firecrest, Ring Ouzel, Great Grey Shrike 500 yards east of Lady Ann's Drive – all at Wells Woods.
ISABELLINE SHRIKE viewed from path, 50 yards before Washington Hide, RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL fem/1w Male still in willow west of crosstracks, PALLAS'S WARBLERS x 2, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, NORTHERN TREECREEPER east of crosstracks, Great White Egret at Holkham.
Short-eared Owl, Spotted Redshanks x 4, Yellow-legged Gull at Titchwell RSPB.
Great Grey Shrike in hedge west of Mill Common Road, Bacton.
KING EIDER possible flew west, Lapland Bunting, Black Brant, Pomarine Skuas x 5, Sooty Shearwaters x 8 at Cley.
Great Grey Shrike at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB.
DUSKY WARBLER, probable in garden of North House, viewable from main road at Burnham Deepdale.
Long-eared Owl, Great Grey Shrikes x 2, Short-eared Owl, Firecrest, Lapland Bunting at Waxham.
Great Grey Shrike in hedge SW of car park at Stiffkey Campsite.
Great Grey Shrike in North Dunes, Sooty Shearwaters x 2, Great Skuas x 3, Arctic Skua at Winterton.
Long-eared Owl, Ring Ouzel, Firecrest at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Great Grey Shrike at Little Snoring Airfield.
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT, Short-eared Owl at Muckleburgh Hill, Weybourne.
Great Grey Shrike, Yellow-browed Warbler by lane just west of church at Trimingham.
Ring Ouzel on railway track at Hopton-on-Sea.
Siberian Chiffchaff probable briefly at Cockthorpe Common.
Great Grey Shrike at Walcott.
PALLAS'S WARBLER in NWT Forestry, Great Grey Shrikes x 2, Short-eared Owls x 2 at Holme Dunes NWT.
Richard's Pipits x 2 flew west over Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.

Lincolnshire Hightlights
• DUSKY WARBLER still at Gibraltar Point NNR

MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! WILSON'S WARBLER for 5th day on Isle of Lewis.
MEGA! BLYTH'S PIPIT at St Mary's, Isles of Scilly.
MEGA! HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL at Tresco, Isles of Scilly.