Walsey hills, Cley, Norfolk???

[SimonC]

Hello folks,

I'm going to Cley on Sunday (28th) and I see that a Cetti's Warbler has been reported most of this week at Walsey Hills. My question is, Where dat? or more to the point, how do I get there?

If anybody on here has seen the Cetti's and can give me directions I'd be most grateful ;)

While i'm at it, anything else of note I should be on the look out for? (any migrants - to boost the year-list you understand :scribe: )
Thanks in advance :t:

[Darren Oakley-Martin]

Hi Simon,

grid reference is TG062440

Hope you get it!

[Bubbs]

[QUOTE=SimonC]Hello folks,

Simon,

Walsey Hills is just a short walk from the East Bank car park, or park in the small car park near WH.

[SimonC]

cheers chaps!

I've just looked up that grid ref. & I can see the footpath now!
I take it I just walk up there and look for the thickest, most inpenetrable patch of scrub and tick off anything that moves? ;)

I'm being flippant of course.........but knowing my luck that is probably how it'll be!!!

Anything else about?

[Andrew Whitehouse]

A quick check on the Birdguides Norfolk page reveals - well, not that much! There's been a Rough-legged Buzzard knocking about around Titchwell. I guess there's probably still Shore Lark etc. at Holkham. The weather looks decent over the weekend and a bit warmer so I think there's every chance that things will be coming in though.

[SimonC]

Cheers Andrew!

I've almost given up on the RLBs now! Never where they're supposed to be........anyone would think they were wild & able to roam at will ;)

If the shorelarks didn't get blown away last Saturday i might call in there at some point (it was hellish, sitting in the car in Lady Anne's drive bracing myself for either a tree to fall on me or the car to take off and sail over the fields!!)

[Rob Smallwood]

Simon,

Don't go off the paths here - I believe it is a protected site for Adders - there should be a local warden there who might help your quest.

Forget bush bashing - Cetti's are far easier to hear first!!

[cjay]

Why go to twitch a cettis warbler? they are very common at Carlton Marshes near Lowestoft & strumpshaw RSPB Reserve. often heard seldom seen.

I can give you the details for these sites if you want to see one elsewhere.

CJ

[SimonC]

Why go to twitch a cettis warbler? they are very common at Carlton Marshes near Lowestoft & strumpshaw RSPB Reserve. often heard seldom seen.

I can give you the details for these sites if you want to see one elsewhere.

CJ
I'm not going specifically to twitch a Cetti's!! The trip to Cley has been planned for at least two months (for a very specific reason - which I won't go into)
The fact that a Cetti's has been reported there recently is just a bonus (as I've yet to see one!)

Talking of Lowestoft though Colin, I read somewhere about there being regular (or resident even?) Black Redstarts somewhere? From what I could fathom of the report, they were near what used to be the Bird's Eye factory when I was a kid! Any info you might be able to give me on them would be greatly appreciated (& might even spark a sort of twitch on my part - or "Tic" as i've decided to call it!! ;) )

[SimonC]

OK............Cetti's was heard but not seen and according to my own rules for "life ticks" i can't have it :storm:

Oh well! at least I know what to listen out for now!

[Karl J]

OK............Cetti's was heard but not seen and according to my own rules for "life ticks" i can't have it :storm:

Oh well! at least I know what to listen out for now!

No worries .... only looks like a sparrow anyhow. The song is far better ;) ;)

[Rob Smallwood]

..and think how good you'll feel when you find one by call and confidently announce "That's a Cetti's!" !

[SimonC]

..and think how good you'll feel when you find one by call and confidently announce "That's a Cetti's!" !
Yep! Hopefully quite soon too!