Red-breasted Flycatcher (thanks to James Hanlon for his pic)
Brown Shrike
A few decent birds had been blown over the North Sea into Norfolk the best being only the second county record of Brown Shrike. George asked if I fancied joining him, Matt and Kai for a quick trip and so at 5am we were off.
We arrived around 7.30am and grabbed a parking spot along Garden Drove in Warham Greens and walked up to join a small crowd looking at the bird. This was a lifer for the other three but it was my second after the Staines Moor bird back in 2009. It showed well if a tad distant and after our fill we walked back to the car and about half way back I picked up some movement in the neighbouring field and once in my bins I identified it as a Redstart which was my first of the year. A juvenile Spoonbill made the year list soon after as it flew over.
Next stop was Wells Woods were quite quickly we had very close views of the Red-breasted Flycatcher followed shortly followed by the one eyed juvenile Red-backed Shrike. As we had to be back around lunchtime and we'd seen all our target birds by 9.30am we headed home after a very enjoyable and successful morning.
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