Graham's Birding Blog: East Norfolk 28

Thursday, 29 August 2013

East Norfolk 28 - 29 August

I've spent the past two mornings out at Horsey. The access road along to Horsey Gap car park has been quite good with plenty of Phylloscs, up to 3 Read Warblers and a couple of Pied Flycathers. The find of the day yesterday, was a Wryneck in Horsey Gap car park. It was flushed from the car park and flew into the bushes on the west side, but despite waiting around for a while it didn't show its face again. Tree Pipit and Yellow Wagtail were also nice.
A juvenile Rose-coloured Startling turned up at the south side of Horsey yesterday, although it's apparently been around further south for a few days. I decided to go and have a look at it today, so after having another (unsuccessful) look for the Wryneck and checking the north side of Horsey Gap, I headed south. There were lots of Northern Wheatears around the Nelson Head track (up to 15), 7 Yellow Wagtails flew north, Lesser Whitethroat numbers seemed higher (4 in total), 4 Redstarts and 3 Whinchats added to the diversity.

One of the many Northern Wheatears at Horsey.

I found the starling feeding in the brambles about 500 metres south of the Nelson Head track. It was quite showy, but every time it flew it got totally hammered by all the migrant Swallows in the neighbourhood.