There had been a Pallas’s
Grasshopper Warbler at Burnham Overy Staithe yesterday and David, Malcolm,
Roger and I agreed we would go today if there was positive news. The initial news was negative but it was
reported seen just after 09:00.
We were all at David’s for
10:15 and we set then set off to Norfolk seeing just a couple of Buzzards and a
Peregrine on route.
When we arrived at Burnham
Overy Staithe beach car park there had been just one other reported sighting
but there appeared to be a lot of birders returning along the sea wall to the
car park. However, the news wasn’t encouraging
as it hadn’t been seen well since the first sighting. We made our way to the area on the bank where
the bird was being seen and joined other birders that were hoping to see it.
There were two guys that were
walking through the grasses just below the sea wall trying to flush it without
much success but then one of them did flush it, when it flew about twenty
meters and disappeared on the other side of the track. David and Roger both saw the bird briefly but
Malcom and I didn’t get on it. The crowd
then moved onto the path and several birds then made several unsuccessful
attempts to flush again. Another bird
was flushed that turned out to be a Dunnock and I did see a bird briefly in
some brambles, which some considered to be a Wren but I wasn’t sure what it was
on the brief views I had. By 16:30 it
hadn’t been seen again and we called it a day and headed back to the car.
As we made our way home there
were three more reports of the bird but the first wasn’t until about 18:30 with
the second claiming it was showing well.
A rather disappointing day
with very little else being seen; the best being seven Pink-footed Geese, a
Little Egret, a Marsh Harrier, three Buzzards and circa forty Golden
Plover. There were a few hirundine
observed including a Sand Martin and several Swallows and House Martins.
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