Spent today at Holme, birds better than yesterday, but still foggy.
Arrived 8am but went to visit parents first as it was still very foggy. Along Firs road a swallow sat on the wire. A common whitethroat! popped out of the Alexanders just before Sandy Ridge (last house but one before pay hut). 3 Pied wagtails. Parked car by 5-bar gate and walked along coastal path to forestry and was just about to divert down into buckthorn when out of the fog appeared BF Helen Elizabeth!!!!!! who had seen ring ouzels and wheatears. There seemed to be quite a bit of movement, more than I expected - saw 4 male wheatears and 3 ring ouzels here, also a nice male blackcap in the elder. 23 shelduck got up from a hollow area of forestry. A female kestrel sat in a bush. Another birder had seen a black redstart near the path, back of the Firs house (I couldn't find it later). Several willow warblers singing, 2 red legged partridge. BF Norfolk Birder also appeared out of the fog!!! 2 sedge warblers singing in a small patch of read near road, 2 long tailed tits flitting about, 1 whimbrel flew overhead calling, sandwich tern, oh and the grasshopper warbler reeled for a bit aswell. Other birds seen: 2 wrens, at least 6 linnets, 4 meadow pipits, 1 robin, 6 swallows, , 4 avocets, another wheatear outside HBO, 1 ringed plover by Gore Point, 1 song thrush, 1 mistle thrush, 1 goldcrest, 50+ wood pigeons (on horse meadow in village), magpie and a couple of pochard on broad water. The fog had started to clear about midday, but gradually got worse again and was dull and cold, so I left at 6pm, and when I got as far as Dersingham it was brilliant sunshine, I couldn't believe it!!! I nearly turned left at the Knights Hill roundabout and went to Flitcham, but changed my mind at the last second.
Best Wishes Penny :girl: