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Overy Marshes

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Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe isabellina)

Dazzling in the sunshine

Spectacular
35
golden Masked Shorelarks
Eromophila alpestris
Footling about on the Salt Marsh
at
Holkham Gap
watched for a good half an hour before they flew off over the trees

also

a
female Scaup
Aythya marina

on the
Holkham Park Lake

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Overy Marshes

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Sunrise over Overy Marshes

Pinkfeet in their hundreds flying out to feed.

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A lone Curlew (Numenius arquata) close in.

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A woodcock flew out just at the bottom of the boardwalk

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Sanderling, Brent, Turnstone, Cormorants and a variety of Gulls out on the sand.

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&
The Bouys

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An Isabelline Wheatear was picking about on the grass.

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A distant Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe Isabellina)

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and a very confiding
Northern Wheatear
(Oenanthe oenanthe)
on the tide line
on the way back.

With grateful thanks to the photographer who found it.

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