STILL no Yellow-Browed Warblers!!!

8/10/05 Holme and Titchwell Leaders:Simeon, Matthew, James and a bit of Connor.
During the week loads of Yellow-Browed Warblers had been seen all along the Norfolk coast, along with Thrush Nightingale, Great-grey shrike and Rose-Coloured Starling. I was really desparate to get to either Holme or Titchwell. In the end it was arranged that we would go to Holme and try and pick up a Yellow-Browed at Titchwell. We got to Holme at about 1:30 to be greeted with "I'm afraid you've come on a quiet day." by none other than...Jed! At this news I was a bit down-hearted, because earlier on in the week they had had up to three Yellow-Browed, a Rose-Coloured Starling and they had even rung a Thrush Nightingale. Anyway, we went for a seawatch. A raft of Eider flew past followed by a raft of Common Scoter with at least 5 Velvet amongst them. On the beach there was a single Sanderling, a few Grey Plover, a few Bar-Tailed Godwit, the odd Greater-Blackback and about twenty Brent Geese. Just as we were bout to leave I spotted a Skua flying along the beach. It was extremely close, and we identified it as Pomarine. My second one in under two months. After all the exitement, we left to try and get the Rose-Coloured Starling thet had been hanging around Redwell. Unfortunately, we didn't get it, but at Redwell there were a few Teal and two Snipe. We carried on to Titchwell to try and get at least one of the possible five Yellow-Browed Warblers that had been seen there that day. The result: we didn't get anything except for a "Thing" that could have been one, but we didn't count it. I wasn't worried at this because we would probably get one at the Crown and Anchor Pub in Kilnsea near Spurn where we are going later in in the month. After that we came back to Denver and went straight to the Bridge over the River to try and Get the Red-Necked Grebe that we had found about 3 weeks ago. We saw 2 Great-Cresteds and one Grebe that was probably the Red-Necked, but because of the lighting conditions we weren't able to properly identify or get any decent pictures of. Overrall it was a pretty good day and to round it up we got some chips from Downham Fryer. YUM!!! (We met Connor at Titchwell before we got "The Thing".)