Having been in Norfolk for less than a day a mad dash around the coast was not really anticipated but proved necessary in order to connect with the smart GREAT-SPOTTED CUCKOO found in the Salthouse area. On arrival I was gutted to have missed the bird sat in a tree by about 30 seconds and a nervous wait ensured, as it had gone to ground in the allotments and then I managed to just miss it again! Fortunately it eventually flew north out of the allotments and onto the fence posts and brambles at the base of the Little Eye, allowing me to obtain reasonable scope views of the bird in flight and on the deck amongst an appreciative crowd, with better views obtained just afterwards from the beach carpark, with the bird perched in brambles at the base of Granborough Hill (although even these views allowed only very poor recor shots to be taken) before the bird flew back south and was lost to view. Dad managed to relocate it on wires above the allotments late on, to the joy of a few late arrivals , but it quickly flew west, presumably to roost. An excellent and rather unexpected bird on my return home!
Also seen, although rather overshadowed, a Spoonbill flew east at 20:55 hrs over beach road and the journey home produced a Hobby that flashed over the road.
