For some while I have been wanting to see the long-staying juvenile Black Stork at Boyton on the Suffolk coast. Last Saturday was when I finally dragged myself down there to take a look. The bird to’s and fro’s between a ditch by the sea wall and a small lake near Boyton Hall Farm. When we visited it was on the lake. After some to-ing and fro-ing of our own as access wasn’t obvious we eventually found the spot and the bird showing at very close quarters on a narrow arm of the lake. I filled my boots photographically this being only my second ever in the UK. Both have been in Suffolk. Almost at our feet was a Wasp Spider and a Wall Brown was seen while we were phaffing about looking for access.
After a walk at nearby Shingle Street Belinda agreed to a drive up to Aldeburgh for some more birding. The town itself was a nightmare due to the annual carnival but luckily we managed to park near where we stay in our motorhome at Slaughden and I hiked out to Town Marshes along the sea wall. There I eventually found the 4 Ruddy Shelduck but they were pretty rubbish being asleep and distant in the heat haze. A Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 6 Snipe and many Black-tailed Godwits were rather more obliging.
Fast forward to Sunday and it was ‘twitch-on’ again. This time for a Greenish Warbler found the previous day at Ness Point, Lowestoft. Initially in buddleia in a fenced compound it went missing for a while before I re-found it in tamerisks near where it was originally found. With some patience it showed nicely a few times and I even managed a few shots through an annoying fence!
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