Registry Office and Snettisham

Having to register a death within five days of occurrence and North Walsham's Reg Office only open Thursday and Friday morning within the time date, scuppered plans for an early start. Our monthly outing with A and B was due to begin at Snettisham. Aileen is hampered by a newly broken arm, we can bird from the car there. We didn't make it until mid-day to find a very low tide, plenty of waders scattered nearby, mostly Knot. A flock of 20 Avocets was a year's first and there was a flock of 20 Snow Buntings on the shingle at the reserve end of the last chalets.
Still looking for the Shorelarks, I heard an unfamiliar call as a bird flew west. We reversed our tracks and found two birds feeding on the shingle. Very dark by now but they were reasonably close.
Poor photograph.........


Hunstanton Cliffs for the regular Fulmars, a very large flock of Scoter viewable in the thick mist. Two Red-breasted Mergansers fished closer in and the tideline had many Bar-tailed Godwits - missing from Snettisham. Many waders feeding on the exposed rocks and sand at the east end car park too.
Bitterly cold with poor visibility so we called it a day. Again, a return via Ringstead due to road closure. As we left H a snow shower swept in, large flakes which settled. By Fakenham the snow got steadily wetter until it became solid rain - it still is.