Walking from the car park through the wooded area to the main trail the usual woodland birds were seen, the main trail was quite, the sun not yet up. From the Island hide the usual ducks and waders were feeding, but no Jack Snipe at the usual location. Eventually Brent Geese, Pink-feet Geese and Golden Plovers started filling the sky with some great flights over and also on to the reserve.
Walking back along the main trail, just at the junction with the meadow trail I heard the call of a Yellow-browsed Warbler, after searching the bushes and eliminating the Long-tailed Tits and Goldcrests I saw the warbler searching for food, fortunately it showed well and I watched for a while. A man appeared with sound recording equipment (I had already seen several others), anyhow I pointed out the YBW and he was able to get some recordings of it calling very close-by.
I headed-off for breakfast, during which rain and wind set in. Not being too pleasant I filled the morning doing something else, once the sun returned early afternoon I headed to Holkham to explore the wood and pasture west of Lady Ann's drive. There were lots of Long-tailed Tits and Goldcrests with other usual small passerines in the pines. Several Redwings were taking shelter from the wind.
On the meadows Pink-feet and GreyLag Geese grazed, a single Snipe flew over, a Heron and Kingfisher hunted along one of the ditches. On Salts Pool three Little Grebe were present and a few Mallard. On the Pools opposite Washington hide a Great White Egret was stalking for food, several Gadwall were also present. Kestrel and Buzzard hunted over the meadows and two Jay called from within the pine trees.
Several Dragonfly and Butterfly were on the wing, Red Admiral was identified, but the other were too far/high to identify.
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