Valentines day twitching around the Lowestoft area!
I finally got the time to have a day birding and for once we had a small window of good weather.
The wintering Hume’s Warbler at Denes Oval was a bird I’d wanted to catch up with since it was found about 10 days ago. I got some nice views within just a few minutes of arrival in the SW corner of the Oval before the bird skipped from shrub to shrub and then went to ground in one bush for a good 45 minutes. Here it gave a few fleeting views but kept to the centre of the bush, presumably feeding. After some while it eventually moved again but was quickly lost again over the perimeter wall. The bonus of hanging around was a Firecrest in the same bushes. Nearby at Ness Point 4 Purple Sandpipers were in one of their usual spots and a single Kittiwake offshore.
Part 2 of my plan for the day was to visit Carlton Marshes. After the walk out to Peto’s Marsh I bumped in to Jeremy Gaskell and began to scan the masses of wildfowl (Wigeon, Pintail, Teal, Shoveler and Mallard) - and picked up the drake American Wigeon almost straight away! Due to disturbance by 5 Marsh Harriers the duck were very skittish but eventually settled closer where it was picked up again and I even managed a couple of digiscoped record shots. Just over the bank on the other side of the path a single Tundra Bean Goose and 4 Russian White-fronted Geese were with Greylags and Canadas. A flock of c50 Russian Whitefronts also flew over and Bearded Tits ‘pinged’ briefly nearby.
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