Black- faced Bunting at Warham Greens

On Tuesday 10th November, I took A/L and picked up James W. at 7.30am to drive up to Stiffkey Saltmarshes car park (the same one where the Rufous Bushchat was seen). Driving up a large flock of Pink- feet seen on the side of the road must be several hundred (couldn't count as I was driving!) Arriving there were a few parking spaces and we walked a mile west, following past the whirley-gig, concrete surrounds of the former defence battery re: WW2. Whilst walking down saw several groups of Brent Geese and a few small groups of Pink- feet flying too. Initially we saw a group of people c15 looking at low bushes (we had arrived here at 9.40am but when an alert went off stating that the BFB had been seen in the usual bushes at 9.50am we knew we were in the wrong place. We carried on walking and reached a field with 2 big bramble/ elderberry bushes. We waited here for almost 2 hours where bird seen in these bushes were a Robin, 3 Dunnock and 3 Greenfinches. With Male Kestrel, female Marsh Harrier and Red Kite seen too. The bushes were a third of the way past the whirly gig and a mile west of the car park. at 11.45am, James announced he had the bird he had seen the bunting flew from the sueda and low over the grass and dive into the bush, I saw a greyish bird flutter in the middle of the right hand bush then disappear deep into the bush, fortunately about a minute later it hopped out and settled on bare branches on the left hand side of the bush. Although it was slightly obscured by one bare breanch in front of it, noting the drab appearance of this Bunting, the following ID features stood out and were instantly looked for and checked out! It had a distinctive side grey nape shawl, striking creamy- yellow malar stripe and pink legs proved this was the excellent 1st winter Black- faced Bunting. It's tail was fanned but white outer-tail feather noted on the lowest tail feather. A new British tick and new for Norfolk too. Even though the sun had gone in I managed a few shots of this bird, and managed to view it in the scope too, letting James have a look as I took pics, it showed for around 5 minutes before it flew back to the sueda and not seen again. On the walk back, we saw a Red Kite fly over the saltmarsh and 2 Red Kites flew low over the road (A148) on the wayback, eyeing some road kill.