Bird Sightings – Thursday 16 February 2012

Felbrigg – 2 Smew, 2 Mandarin. Titchwell – 2 Velvet Scoter. Buckenham Marshes – LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, 50 Taiga Bean Geese. Great Yarmouth – Velvet Scoter. Burgh Castle – 5 Twite. Kelling – COUES’ ARCTIC REDPOLL, 3 Mealy Redpoll, BLACK BRANT, 800 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 7 Pale-bellied Brent Geese. Salthouse – 100 Snow Buntings. Holkham – Rough-legged Buzzard, 30 Snow Buntings, 4 Shorelarks. Fakenham – Great Grey Shrike. Whitlingham C. P. – Smew. Snettisham – 60 Snow Buntings. Barton Broad – 4 Smew, 3 Scaup, Bittern (+Otter). Sheringham – 2 Purple Sandpipers. Wells – 2 Smew. Lynford Arboretum – 15 Hawfinches. Ludham – 290 Bewick’s Swans, 20 Whooper Swans. Blakeney – 20 Twite. Saddle Bow – 8 Smew. Cley – 2 Smew.