After the offer of a lift from Brendon Fagan up to Suffolk and Norfolk was accepted we headed up towards Hickling Broad but as there was a good bird on the way and despite him seeing it during the week Brendon kindly took me to see only my second UK Roller. This one was showing much better than my first (also in Suffolk) perching on wires over a field and dropping down to eat any insect that dared move.
After our fill of that we headed a few miles down the road towards Lackford Lakes. The hoped for a Glossy Ibis didn’t show until an hour after we’d left! So we headed for Hickling where after waiting our turn to get onto the viewing platform the pair of Black-winged Stilts could be seen snoozing behind the long grass. Some wonderfully multicoloured male Ruff were dotted about and a Curlew Sandpiper played hide and seek behind the tussocks.
Minsmere was our last stop where we hoped to see one of the Roseate Terns that had been around for a week or so. Typically they didn’t show today but 9 summer plumaged Spotted Redshank was a delight to see. In the public hide we bumped into my old mucker Jonathan Nasir. We wandered around to the east hide to try and locate the terns but instead I did manage to find 3 Garganey (which he failed to mention in his blog 😉 - see my blog list for Random Birder!). A couple of flyby Bittern were the last species noted as again I failed to see a Purple Heron at Minsmere (5th attempt!)
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