East Norfolk coast

[Karl J]

A mornings jaunt round some of my local areas ...

Ormesby
11 Waxwing, in a tree near the Old Hall

Martham Broad
~250 of common ducks
1 Gt Crested Grebe
2 female Marsh Harrier

Horsey Warren & dunes
2 Stonechat
1 male Marsh Harrier
1 Sparrowhawk
12 Snow Buntings

.... in about 2 hours
Gannets, 50 - 70, mostly North
Red-throated Diver, ~15
Brent Goose, 1
Common Scoter, 7 S
2 Guillemots

Gt Yarmouth seafront
1 Sanderling
5 Turnstones
1 Common Scoter on the sea
14 Med. Gulls, .... 6 on the roof of the Sealife Centre and 8 nearby on the beach

[Geoff Pain]

Not a bad little list for a morning jaunt.

Geoff

[level seven]

I'm going to north Norfolk next week for the first time. Snow Buntings are a bird I'd love to see. Do I have a reasonable chance on the coast? Not to mention Waxwings, who everyone else seems to see in their back garden or when pushing their trolley back to the car at Tescos |:(|

[Karl J]

Hi there LS, yes i think there are a few Snow Buntings about now.

Someone said 14 at Cley last Friday (though i only saw 1 :eek!: ) ... there were 19 on Caister beach yesterday ... and those today ... so yes, a few about

[Andrew]

Another nice haul. The amount of ground you cover, one day you are going to hit the jackpot and find a real goody for the twitchers!

[level seven]

Thanks Karl - I'll be going to Cley (I've heard so much about it!) so I'll keep a careful look-out for them.

[David Bryant]

Hi Karl!
We had an exhausted Long-eared Owl at our school in Suffolk Road today! Tim A knows which school! It eventually flew off being mobbed by Rooks: great sight for the kids!

[Karl J]

Interesting David, i saw the same thing out at Stokesby on Saturday afternoon

Great sight for me ;)

[birdman]

Great stuff, Karl,

You really cover some miles... I'm going to have to get into this cycle-birding.

I think I've said before that the terrain's not to bad in these parts, but unfortunately, I'm too far away from the sea to pick up some of the great variety you do.

Nice one! :t: