Mundesley - Northern nutcracker
It was on the cards and then it finally happened. The precise arrival date for the first Northern nutcracker in a long time is still up for debate, but the inevitability of one arriving onto UK shores after a significant movement of birds into the near continent finally came to pass. News of the nutcracker officially broke during the early part of Saturday afternoon that prompted a mass twitch on Sunday morning. So after a typically relaxed start, I arrived at 10.30am to a scene of jubilant but a curiously relaxed group. The bird had flown off. Crossing the road to where it had appeared to go, and after a quick chat with Sam Viles, the nutcracker appeared on top of a flailed hedge. It was a seriously incredible sight. It then flew, straight into the tree above me. It felt surreal, the bird was only a few metres away from my position. It was flighty, heading towards an area of open grassland attached to a private property where it firstly alighted along the fence, dropping down an...
