RNG at Whittlingham Broad & Somerleyton

After receiving excellent directions from Jane F, on Saturday 18th January, I drove to the end of Thunder Lane parked up walked across the railway line footbridge and walked down Whittlingham Lane to the Thorpe Marshes reserve where the RNG had been seen on St. Andrew's Broad, initially no luck but Jane F told me it had gone back onto Whittlingham Borad, so I drove down Whittlingham Broad access road from , there had been a lot of developments with several pay and display car parks for the Broad area, I drove on and after half a mile I found a wooded area with parking for a couple of cars off the road. I just got out of the car and fortunately bumped into Chris L who was walking down with his family. So I retrieved my gear and walked a 1/4 mile back to the broad, seeing a female Goosander on the Broad and saw Jon B and his family. Jon was scoping the bird andf I saw the excellent Red- necked Grebe, initially asleep right at the back, the far side of the Broad when a GC Grebe took exception to it and chased it off and I saw the RNG swimming left and out of sight. Nearby in the bushes behind us Jon said he had a Redpol, I saw several Siskins but I missed the Redpoll. I then drove to Somerleyton Church saw the Balck Cattle but no Cattle Egrets, there were 5 Grey Herons and a Great White Egret in the field with them. A Lizard What's App message stated Rob Wil had a bug Finch flock in the field just after Somerleyton Primary school on the corner of the main road, with a set aside field with a big tree in the middle. I parked nearby and walked over from the hedge I saw a 350+ strong Finch flock mainly Chaffinches, Goldfinches but also when the periodically flew up into the tree I spotted 8+ Bramblings, white rumped and varying amounts of peach- orange plumage several gawdy males seen amongst their number.