1st year Red- footed Falcon at Carlton Marshes!

On Sunday at 8.10am a Whats App message from the ever prolific rare bird finding machine that is Andrew E, stated there was a RFF Falcon down at Carlton Marshes, a Lowestoft proper tick for me. So I leapt in the car and by 8.40am I was walking down the main track in the company of Chris's M & D, we saw Andrew E and Maurice B looking across at a bush in the marsh just south of the main track and west of Tower hide. The excellent 1st summer male Red- footed Falcon was at at the top left of the bush. Perched and seemingly settled I noted the intersting plumage was usual uniform full grey plumage of the adult bird hadn't fully developed and there was an equally attractive orangy nape collar (whiter on the sides of the head) , white throat flecked with splodges of grey and orangy on the very rear flank and undertail coverts. Sadly, a couple of Magpies came over and flushed it as it flew first east then west and then south- west an perched on a distant elderberry bush. Later on in the afternoon, I joined Paul & Jane F & Gavin to see the Red- backed Shrike at the start of the Share Marsh track. It was perched to the left of a a large bramble bush and showed at mid distance. It was great to walk a few paces west and see the Red- footed Falcon perched on its favourite bush, if very distant. Apologies for the quality of the shots, these are record shots only as birds are usually so far away at Carlton Marshes & the Falcon today for me was no exception. At 10.16am, the immature Spoonbill was still asleep on the Turnpike Scrape, it did wake upo and have a feed too!