Hickling goodies

On Saturday 20th May at around 5.30pm I drove up to Hickling parked up and walked out to Brendan's Marsh, where from the first platform, the fine 1st summer Caspian Gull was soon spied hiding behind an island it walked out and spent a lot of time between 2 plants, before eventually flying off and then back again, settling a little further back. A flock of 19 Black- tailed Godwits actively fed nearby and a diminutive mousy-grey brown Temminck's Stint fed on the left side of the island. Not to be out done an immature Spoonbill was feeding over to the left and then it preened and flapped its wings, posing nicely for the camera at mid- distance. Over to the east in the trees scrub I could see at least a a few more, 3 Spoonbills perched up and a fine yellow- billed Great White Egret flew in and joined them. As I walked between the platforms, a Grass Snake was seen curled up at the side of the path but I spotted it too late (stomping about with 3 cameras and lenses meant i couldn't get a pic, sadly. Overhead House Martins, Sand Martins, Swifts milled around. It was too blowy for Hobbies sadly.