Anyway before we get there......
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The day started off quietly enough, hanging around Sheringham and taking a photo opportunity with a Purple Sandpiper on the rocks off the promenade.....
Wakey wakey!
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That's more like it - until disappearing out view!
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A First Winter Little Gull gave an acrobatic display fending off the local Gull population......
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and then (horribly late) I refreshed my Norfolk bird news to find a Pallas’s Warbler (a lifer for me) had been found in the dunes at Burnham Overy a couple of hours previously!
Cursing somewhat and hopefully reassuring Yvonne that this was to be the real side of Norfolk we sped off.
Watch this space......