Yesterday, my first opportunity to do some local birding after Christmas, started with a two hour sea-watch from NLP - breakfast courtesy of 'Phil Deliveroo'! It was quiet for the first hour but then the pace picked up a little. Eventual highlights included: a good passage of Red-throated Diver, auks and Fulmar (most of the latter going west but probably including some early returners as well), four Eider, Great Crested Grebe, a small flock of Brent and three Shag - possibly the local birds still hanging around. The afternoon brought the surprising announcement of 'roosting Long-eared Owl in the grounds' of those nice people at Cley Spy. These superb wintering birds are getting trickier to find - this was in fact a year tick for me!
iPhone shot of a roosting Long-eared Owl in the late afternoon sun
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