Burnham Overy Again

A days birding in Norfolk with Paul, Brendan and Dave. Our intention was to be in Norfolk because lots of good stuff was going to turn up! Of course this didn't happen and we didn't even manage a consolation Yellow-browed Warbler, although we did try twice at Wells Woods and once at Holkham Pines. "Pay and Display" don't you just luv em?!.
We did keep a Norfolk day list and you can see this below.
Our first brief stop in Norfolk was near North Creake, we had seen Grey Partridge here previously but no luck this time. We did manage Red Kite and Buzzard in the same dead tree and also Stock Dove and a large flock of Golden Plover. On to Burnham Overy the highlights of our visit here were; Brambling, Grey Partridge, Egyptian Goose and Pink-footed Goose on our walk along the track towards the sea wall. From the sea wall the more noteworthy birds; Bearded Tit, Grey Plover, Brent Goose. Nothing in the bushes near the boardwalk so we had a seawatch. The best birds seen were; Arctic Skua (close in along the beach), Guillemot, Common Scoter, Red-throated Diver, "Comic " Terns (very distant). Over to Wells Woods, very quiet here with not a lot to add to our day list. The news services were reporting a Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham, so we made our way there. After a long walk to the west end of the pines we joined a handful of other birders hoping to connect with the Yellow-browed. No luck in the hour that we spent searching and our car park money was only for 2 hours. Now the news services we were reporting a Yellow-browed in Wells Woods. This time near the "drinking pool". None of us new where the drinking pool was but a very helpful birder gave us some good directions and we also bumped into him at Wells.  So we made our way to the drinking pool, on the way we were lucky enough to connect with a Pied Flycatcher. On reaching the drinking pool we were unable to connect with any birds except a low flyover Buzzard. A quick look for the Pied Flycatcher on our walk back produced a bit of a surprise in shape of a Redwing. So no biggies but a nice day out in glorious sunshine all the same. Our day list pretty much in the order the birds were seen. Paul's pics below and day list further down. Pink-footed Goose and Gypo, Bearded Tit, Golden Plover all at Burnham Overy.

1		Wood Pigeon
2		Lapwing
3		Lesser black-backed Gull
4		Jackdaw
5		Carrion Crow
6		Mistle Trush
7		Magpie
8		Collared Dove
9		Pheasant
10		Red-legged Partridge
11		Starling
12		Pied Wagtail
13		Rook
14		Mallard
15		Moorhen
16		Goldfinch
17		Long-tailed tit
18		Red Kite
19		Buzzard
20		Jay
21		Golden Plover
22		Stock Dove
23		Marsh Harrier
24		Skylark
25		Greylag Goose
26		Dunnock
27		Robin
28		Linnet
29		Egyptian Goose
30		Pink-footed Goose
31		Blue Tit
32		Great Tit
33		Meadow Pipit
34		Wren
35		Curlew
36		Grey Heron
37		Cormorant
38		Brambling
39		Grey Partridge
40		Chaffinch
41		Black-tailed Godwit
42		Brent Goose
43		Dunlin
44		Grey Plover
45		Redshank
46		Great black-backed Gull
47		Wigeon
48		Teal
49		Ringed Plover
50		Turnstone
51		Shelduck
52		Kestrel
53		Reed Bunting
54		Oystercatcher
55		Bearded Tit
56		Sanderling
57		Guillemot
58		Red-throated Diver
59		Gannet
60		Arctic Skua
61		Common Gull
62		Common Scoter
63		"Comic" Tern
64		Black-headed Gull
65		Herring Gull
66		Little Egret
67		Little Grebe
68		Goldcrest
69		Treecreeper
70		Chiffchaff
71		Pied Flycatcher
72		Coal Tit
73		House Sparrow
74		Blackbird