Snow

6 and 7 February 2018
On the 6th we had a good few inches of snow in Bircham but the coast was clear. School run and lock up run sorted there was just time to try for the Twite at Thornham. The problem here is that you have to view the small car park and it's incredibly frustrating as you see the birds coming in to get grit or have a bathe and then a car arrives or people with dogs appear. All completely justifiable of course, it's a car park not a private birding area, but so frustrating that after 20 minutes I gave up. Pied Wagtail and Reed Bunting the only birds brave enough to appear.

The next day and it was in search of Coues's Arctic Redpoll at Kelling. Even with the local expert (Malc) accompanying me we failed to nail it. We did see the flock and it would have been in that flock but they never settled. A few individual Lesser Redpolls were about in the hedgerow.

Having dipped on the Salthouse/Granborough Hill Snow Buntings last week I decided to try "third time lucky". And I was. Only 7 birds present, or that I could find. But they were showing nicely.