Waders and Gulls ... East Anglian birds ...

 Frampton Marsh was my first port of call last week and both Semi-palmated Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs were still present despite being rather mobile ... but a Pectoral Sandpiper remained more site faithful to give some nice close views ...

Then on to my planned destination of North Norfolk where high water levels on the marshes left less feeding areas for waders than usual ... among the Ruff there were some very smart males ...

Curlew Sandpipers were rather scarce but one at Burnham Overy showed well as it fed along with a small group of Dunlin ...

At Cley some Cattle Egrets dropped on to Pat's Pool and finally numbered a remarkable sixteen birds ...

Mediterranean Gulls turned up at a few locations including an adult past Sheringham ...

... followed by a second-winter bird there ...

... and a very distant first-winter bird on Arnold's Marsh in rather murky conditions ...

... juvenile Gannets were a frequent sight close inshore ...

Late afternoon on Pat's Pool gull numbers built and an adult Caspian Gull put in an appearance on two occasions ...

... and a Starling roost started to build ...

Autumn in North Cumbria ... Waders, Gulls ... arriving and departing migrants ...

 Barnacle Geese are arriving wave after wave now and seem more obvious than the Pink-footed Geese that filled the skies a few weeks ago ...

Greenshanks, rarely very common on the Solway have numbered up to four in recent weeks ...

... the wake behind this bird resulted from it running along with its head submerged ...

... this adult favoured the rocky shore ...

Knot numbers have increased from just a handful a couple of weeks ago to around 1000 ... with some lovely peachy juveniles ...

... and Bar-tailed Godwits roosting behind ...

... the Knot flocks performing spectacular aerial displays

... a notable 81 Mediterranean Gulls in Workington Harbour included adults, second-winters and first-winters in decreasing order of numbers ...

... and a single adult at Port Carlisle / Bowness Railings was further up the estuary than most venture to ...

Grune Point hosted three Female / 1st winter Wheatears ...

... and nearby a Spotted Redshank typically favoured the deeper water ...

... and moved restlessly on the mud ...

... an adult Little Stint finally showed itself among the large Dunlin flocks ...

... and this juvenile Garganey consorted with Teal on the new Campfield Scrape pools ...