No Norman (he is within the Lakes!) so Brian and I headed north to Cley, settling into Bishop’s Conceal round 07.40. It was unseasonably chilly, however however we had been handled to shut views of a Spoonbill trying to find nesting materials, a Little Egret and considerably extra distant ones of a Greenshank and a few Wooden Sandpipers.
A transfer to Dauke’s Conceal added Little Stint to the yr listing, in addition to Widespread Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier and different odds and ends. Espresso after which the East Financial institution, which produced a number of distant Nice Egrets and a Ringed Plover.
We completed off with a stroll alongside the Iron Street at Salthouse and right down to the pool at Kelling Quags: nothing else to report, so (after one other cuppa!) we headed house…
