Morston marsh was alive with colour and plenty of Skylark and Meadow Pipit, Linnet, Goldfinch, Reed Bunting, singing Yellowhammer and Whitethroat, and Swallow, Swifts, House and Sand Martins feed overhead.
A Pied Wagtail was busy collecting food, ignoring everyone most of the time.
A Little Egret was on the edge of a creek, while another fed in the creek with a Herring Gull and juvenile Black-head Gull nearby. The Herring Gull was doing some foot-paddling to search for food.
Stiffkey fen is quite small and located immediately behind a creek and sea wall.
On the fen a flock of about 30 Black-tailed Godwits and a similar number of Redshank were feeding and roosting. Several Avocet were present, one had a nest. A lone female Pintail was present along with Teal and Mallard. The is a Black-headed Gull colony here too with many juveniles. A Buzzard flew over calling.
During the afternoon I explored the Morston area for butterflies, there were several of the common species present, unfortunately nothing else, Large Heath, Gatekepper and Small Skipper for example.
While doing this I heard a very evocative call from above, 8 Whimbrel were flying over and pondering whether to land to not, I think they moved on to Skiffkey fen.
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