Great photo day!

On Sunday 28th October, seawatching with James B on Gunton cliff, 2 distant Skua sp. seen flying north, plus 3 Red- breasted Mergansers flew north and 2 groups of 6 Eider flew north (3 males & 3 females) in each group. A tweet about a Mandarin at Kensington Gardens and I drove straight over there and the Mandarin was on the watery area by the bridge with Mallards, it was a fine drake Mandarin and spent some time hiding in the vegetation and occasionally swimming out. A lady came to throw out some bread and upon her first throw, the male Mandarin took off and flew north- east over towards the beach. Upon hearing from another birder that a Brent Goose had been seen near the Pier I walked down to the second beach just south of the Pier and an immature Brent Goose was there but quickly flew to the "Sanderling" beach just as I was walking along the Prom. It was feeding from the rocks and then swam south to the second beach again and walked along the beach had a snooze by the sea edge and then fed again on the seaweed by the rocks where I left it. A tweet about an RBF at Southwold campsite and I drove down there parking in the 30 minute bay and walked across and in the extreme north- west corner of the campsite, in area of 3 trees the excellent Red- breasted Flycatcher flew in. It was typically large eyed with the distinctive white basal outer- tail feather and occasional flicking its tail and drooping its wings. It flew to different perched often sitting still for a minute or more. It would often fly to the bushes at the back but within minutes would fly back. Often the views were slightly obscured but patience meant occasional unobscured views seen. It would often fly to the back foraging on the ground and a middle height area and higher up in the trees too. On to the Southward Churchyard, along the northside, I saw Paul & Jane F just inside the churchyard looking intently at a Mountain Ash/ Rowan tree. Of course they had the excellent Waxwing in their sights. It spent most of the time perched within the tree with only obscured views being seen but as the sun went in, it hopped out in full view and started feeding on the Rowan berries we walked out and watched it from the side and I merged to get a few record shots, one of which surprisingly got 168 likes on Twitter, at the time of writing!