NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!

Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
Saturday 17th September
Redstarts x 2 yesterday at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Sooty Shearwaters x 2 at Winterton.
Leach's Petrels x 2, Pomarine Skua, Sooty Shearwaters x 41, Long-tailed Duck, Honey Buzzard flew south over Happisburgh.
Sabine's Gull flew west at 8.27am, Sheringham.
Leach's Petrel flew west at 8.59am and another at 11.39am, Salthouse.
Red-breasted Flycatcher in bushes 300yds along Meadow Lane, between Salthouse and Kelling Quags.
Black-necked Grebes x 3 flew west past Salthouse.
Leach's Petrels x 5, Sabine's Gulls x 3, Long-tailed Skua, Pomarine Skuas x 3, Balearic Shearwaters x 4, Sooty Shearwaters x 70, Manx Shearwaters x 60, Great Skuas x 50, Grey Phalarope at Cley.
Great White Egret flew WSW with Herons x 7 at 4.10pm over Cley NWT.
Leach's Petrel drifted towards Cart Gap at 9.45am, Happisburgh.
Pectoral Sandpiper from Parrinder Hide, Titchwell RSPB.
Leach's Petrels x 2, Balearic Shearwater, Pomarine Skuas x 4, Sooty Shearwaters x 30, Black-necked Grebes x 3, Great Skuas x 262, Arctic Skuas x 53 at Sheringham.
Leach's Petrel flew past at 4.10pm, Sooty Shearwaters x 2 flew north, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Little Gull at Hunstanton.
Pied Flycatchers x 3, Whinchat, Black-necked Grebes flew west at Blakeney Point.
Spoonbills x 17, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skuas x 54, Redstarts x 3 at Titchwell RSPB.
Sabine's Gulls x 2, Pomarine Skuas x 7, Long-tailed Skua, Balearic Shearwaters x 2, Sooty Shearwaters x 70, Black Terns x 3, Puffin, Curlew Sandpiper, Great Skuas x 200, Arctic Skuas x 50, Black-throated Diver, Great White Egret with Grey Herons x 3 west at Sheringham.
Dotterels x 2 on 9th fairway, towards west end of golfcourse at Sheringham.
Wryneck north of boardwalk, Serin flew from west end of dunes towards boardwalk at Burnham Overy Dunes.
Leach's Petrels x 2, Sabine's Gull, Long-tailed Skua, Pomarine Skua, Great Skuas x 159, Arctic Skuas x 2, Sooty Shearwaters x 2, Caspian Gull at Holme.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Redstarts x 2, Tree Pipit at Wells Woods.
ARCTIC WARBLER again, though elusive, GREENISH WARBLER elusive, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at East Hills, Wells.
Firecrests x 2 at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Leach's Petrel flew west past Walcott.
Pied Flycatchers x 2 south of Shangri -La chalet at Waxham.
Redstart west end of plantation at Stiffkey.
Long-tailed Skua flew offshore at Scratby.
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MEGA NEWS 
MEGA! LANCEOLATED WARBLER north of Sumburgh Farm at Sumburgh Head, Shetland.
MEGA! GREAT SNIPE probable, flew from Crown & Anchor pub car park, Kilnsea, Yorkshire.
MEGA! DALMATIAN PELICAN on Loe Pool, Helston, Cornwall.
MEGA! HUDSONIAN WHIMBREL still yesterday, 4 miles east of Penzance, 500yds west of Perranuthnoe at Boat Cove, Cornwall.
MEGA! FORSTER'S TERN at Soldier's Point, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

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