Ice Pools at Kessingland North beach

On Sunday 4th January, I ventured gingerly to Kessingland amid the snow clad landscape, checking the heathlands copse, a Wren was seen here. I then saw Rob H & I walked carefully down the steps. The pools had increased in size and depth and Rob H and I had difficulty traversing the pools as most of them were over a foot and a half in depth. A female Sparrowhawk harried the birds and circled around a few times. We also saw 2 singleton Jack Snipe fly up from the pools edge and a Snipe, in flight too. Finally, we found an area of shallow water we could safely cross and we met Nick & his wife who were scoping the super Shore Larks, 3 initially seen by the edge of the big pool but when we moved further south, we counted all 4 birds. Again in the area just out from the concrete graffittied bunker. After feeding for sometime they flew to the ridge near the sea. Rob H then left and I saw Jon B. and scoping the far south beach area I saw 40+ Snow Buntings in flight by the beach and in the dunes front of the village by the pub area. By the JS marshy area, a Song Thrush and 2 Blackbirds seen. When I arrived back home at 2pm, I saw a super singleton Lapwing flying low over the front garden and heading north west obviously a hard weather migrant.