Barred Warbler finally poses (briefly) for the camera

On Wednesday 27th August, after my customary mid afternoon finish from work, I had to visit Viking Optical at Halesworth to retrieve my tripod. After that I drove to kessingland. It was sunny and I was hopeful for a successful trip to Kessingland Sluice Dunes, but as I walked from the 'Beach' car park after I walked the 1/4 mile to the beack it had clouded over and by the time I reached the Kessingland Sluice bushes dunes, the usual area the skies were leaden, it was quite windy too. I was on my own, which can bode well for photography. I saw a male Stonechat who was perched up by the usual Barred bramble bush. Jane F kindly updated me on exactly where she had seen it barely an hour earlier, so I walked 50 metres north along the back path and immediately I saw a pale bird on the elderberry bush gorging on the berries. It was the fantastic 1st calendar year Barred Warbler and I managed around 12 pics before it hopped back into the bush it must have show for all of 90 seconds! A Canada Goose then flew overhead and south. The skies were looking very dark and a possible rainstorm, so I headed back. As I walked along the dunes I saw 42 Pied Wagtails (half adults, half juveniles) all feeding on the dunes and 41 Linnets suddenly flew south too, overhead. Finally as I pulling on the drive back home, 7 fine House Martin flew low overhead around 60 foot up and flying west.