A final selection of photos from the autumn with these being from mid-October until I returned home in mid-December...
Incredible numbers of Red-flanked Bluetails turned up along the Norfolk coast with up to at one site alone. This one lurked in the undergrowth in Holkham Pines.
Pallas's Warblers are always great to see. This individual was in Holkham Pines, while other late autumn highlights there included a putative Stejneger's Stonechat, Barred Warbler, Hawfinches, Yellow-browed Warblers and up to 17 Cattle Egrets.
The rarest bird of the autumn and biggest surprise was the eastern-race Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin at Stiffkey.
Another, more showy Pallas's Warbler was also at Stiffkey the same day as the Scrub Robin.
This Red-flanked Bluetail showed superbly at Holme Dunes.
Two of the Hawfinches at Holkham.
A Lesser Yellowlegs showed down to a few metres at Cley late in October.
An influx of Caspian Gulls to Cley the same day as the Yellowlegs included this smart Dutch-ringed first-winter (phonescoped).
During the lockdown these Glossy Ibis turned up at Horsham St Faith - within cycling distance of my Norwich house.
I managed one post-lockdown trip to the coast before returning to Northumberland, with a juvenile Iceland Gull at Weybourne being the highlight and a Black Brant at Cley.
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