A quiet few days on the birding front as we have been stuck in this northerly airflow with accompanying weather ranging from persistent rain to warmish, blazing sunshine; the few highlights have comprised a Bonxie which flew up the river on the 16th (the same individual that was seen on the 12th - with distinctively large white wing flashes, especially on the underside), a few bits over the sea on the 17th including 5 Common Scoter, 4 Barnacle Geese and a flock of 18 Starlings in off and a Short-eared Owl which was flying south offshore, heading for an Essex landfall on the 18th along with a single Starling which nearly got to the shore but was knocked into the sea and devoured by a gang of Herring Gulls! There was little change at Trimley Marshes in the afternoon of the 19th with the Tundra Bean Goose still present with the White-fronts and a slight increase to 35 Avocets.
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