Oulton Marsh, Suffolk.

Seeing that the GLOSSY IBIS has been hanging around for a while I thought that I had better go and have a look. Not my first for Suffolk but for Lounge Lizard Land it is. I first picked the bird up amongst a flock of ROOKS and followed it to landing , where it sat fair way off on the marsh in front of platform. Other birders there had it in view and in real terms it was not difficult to fix on.

What was of interest was that behind us was a out of season CHIFFCHAFF which had taken to flitting amongst the read a sedge. Managed a good fix on it and although very grey in my opinion a (Collybita) but it did have significant plumage variation in that it was  pale brown on upper and very dull. Its long eye line strip was significant and for all intents and purposes it could well have been a (tristis) Also it was unusual in jizz in that it was very low to the ground and would often land on the mud.  Its call was not as it should have been for a tristis. Nothing like a Bullfinch call. Just like the other on the other day in in the garden. Which in summing up makes it a  first winter bird. Surprise, surprise. A Siberian chiffchaff has been confirmed in the exact place on January 14th 2014