My trip to Suffolk was good thanks.
Inevitably I spent a good deal of time at Minsmere. After a rather frustrating time on Sat. when it was almost impossible to move, I found it was not so bad during the week and late pm - eve. is a good idea. Didn't quite manage to get 100 sp. in a day there but only missed by 3 or 4. Pretty impressive for a single site.
Other places I visited were RSPB North Warren, Dunwich heath, Blaxhall heath , Walberswick and Sizewell.
Dartford warblers were surprisingly easy on Dunwhich - I got some great photos. Sizewell did not yield the hoped for Black redstart but the Kittiwakes on the outflow rigs were nice to see. One of my other local targets eluded me until I tried Blaxhall on my last day. The most unpromising scrap of heath (when compared with the other much larger heaths around the area) produced 3 woodlarks feeding quietly on the heath fringes. Minsmere produced good views of Bitterns in flight, Bar-wit, knot, Whimbrel, little gull, med gull, little stint etc. but nothing really unusual. But the most exciting sight during my week was of a hobby taking a large juicy dragonfly from right under my nose in the woody fringes to the reedbed on North Warren. It came through the canopy like a sparrowhawk and the shot out back over the reeds.
The only thing I wanted to do but didn't, was to spend some time on the estuaries. Time and tide were against me on that one.
A good week but typically sod's law prevailed and on my return to the Midlands I found that a red backed shrike had turned up at minsmere the day after we left and I missed a temminck's stint on my local patch the day before!
Still you can't be everywhere can you?