Back in the UK for a week recently visiting Mother Benstead - no rares about so contented myself with seeing a few birds not represented so frequently in the Scandinavian avifauna. Nipped out early in the morning to look for barn owls at nearby Burgh-next-Aylsham. This produced the goods in the form of a fine barn owl - they really are good and they are one of the things I MISS about Norfolk (along with real bacon and good English sausages).
Other things that caught my attention were a fly-by little egret (never seen one in the Upper Bure Valley before and it shows the extent of the infiltration into the UK) and the presence of jays in open farmland habitat.
Nipped up to Cley later and especially enjoyed about 45 brent geese, another glorious barn owl, a pair of stonechat and pied wagtails. Also here marsh harrier (1) and a fly-by rock pipit (1).
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