Spoonbill and yet more garden goodies!

On Saturday 24th March, the excellent female Brambling still in garden coming to sunflower seeds seen this morning in our garden at Bosquet Close at 9.10am and at 1.40pm and around 4pm. I then drove over to Carlton Marshes and enjoyed watching the excellent Spoonbill feeding on the middle of the scrape. Several Wigeon around 12 seen on the scrape, too. I encountered a very surreal but pleasurable experience, as I was just about to pull up on the garden drive, I viewed from my driver's seat, an incredible female Black Redstart amazingly seen on our front garden path !!! (so the garden purple patch continues in style!) at 12.50am, it then flew back to our fence bordering our neighbours just west of us, then it flew onto their roof, then flew left onto our roof, then our neighbours' to the east then the next door but one neighbours' roof. Then it flew over Fallowfields and perched by the first bungalow and conservatory then it finally settled on the second bungalow roof at 1.25pm at least, on Verdure Close off Fallowfields, Lowestoft and it looked settled. After that I looked in the garden and there was a fine Stock Dove on the garden fence, it flew down and fed with a Wood Pigeon on the scattered sunflower seed on the grass together with a Wood Pigeon. The bright green almost luminescence patch showed well on the side of its neck but it lacked the black double bars, indicating that it was an immature bird. It was extremely wary and I fired off in haste some shots in the camera not realising the memory card was in another camera, when I realised my mistake the bird had flown already, sadly. The female Black Redtsart was still sitting on the bungalow roof, seeing Paul & Jane who had obtained quite literally Ferguson views, it was still there at 4.30pm perched on the same roof and then it flew onto the pathments and patio leading up to Fallowfields giving good views for me too! The male Pheasant was still on Fallowfields.