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Saturday 30 April 2011

April ends with another patch first

The last day of the month produced yet another patch first, with a pair of Dotterel at West Runton.

Initially on the grassy end of the car park, the disturbance by dog walkers and joggers became too much for them and they were flushed, but fortunately only over the beach road and into the newly sown field on the other side where they continued to give excellent views.

A walk around East Runton produced a superb male Redstart, and then when calling back in at West Runton to have another look at the Dotterel another Redstart flew across in front of us and alighted in the hedge bordering the footpath across the fields where it showed well flycatching out into the field then returning to the shelter of the hedge out of the very brisk and cold easterly wind.