NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!

Monday 19th December
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
Snow Buntings x 30 on beach at Winterton.
Waxwings x 5 still on Jerningham Road at Costessey.
FERRUGINOUS DUCK on Patsy's Reedbed, Scaup, Short-eared Owl, Long-tailed Ducks x 58, Great Northern Divers x 3, Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoters x 28, Water Pipits x 2 at Titchwell RSPB.
RED-BREASTED GOOSE in field, then flew NE with Pink-footed Geese at Choseley.
RED-BREASTED GOOSE with Pink-footed Geese x 10,000 then flew off, NW of Brancaster.
Tundra Bean Geese x 3, Eurasian White-fronted Geese x 2, Pink-footed Geese x 1000 at Beighton.
Eurasian White-fronted Geese x 22 at Ringland Floodplain.
Scaup x 5 at Blakeney Harbour.
Tundra Bean Geese x 4, Eurasian White-fronted Geese x 22, Pink-footed Geese x 2,000, White-fronted Goose at Hemsby.
Short-eared Owls x 2 on beach west of fishing boats at Cley.
Taiga Bean Geese x 13 at Buckenham Marshes RSPB.
Cattle Egret in cattle field, north of Ted Ellis NR entrance track at Surlingham.
Twite x 30 at Thornham Harbour.
Iceland Gull juv. at duck pond at Salthouse.
Shorelarks x 23, Slavonian Grebes x 2, Great Northern Diver, Velvet Scoters x 15, Long-tailed Ducks x 13 at Holkham Bay, still east of Holkham Gap.
Tundra Bean Geese x 5 at Bradwell.
Hen Harriers x 5 at Warham Greens.
Todd's Canada Goose (form interior), White-fronted Geese x 40, Barnacle Geese x 6, Pink-footed Geese x 10,000 in field north of Docking.
Short-eared Owl at Horsey.
Black-throated Divers x 2, Long-tailed Ducks x 2 at Holme.

MEGA NEWS
MEGA! DUSKY THRUSH still, in field at top of Pig Lane, Beeley, 5mls NNW of Matlock, Derbyshire.
FIRST FOR BRITAIN! MASKED WAGTAIL (Motacilla alba personata) – again at Croft Villas, 2.5mls NNW of Haverfordwest at Camrose, Pembrokeshire.