Bored with MFI ... so went birding on Breydon

[Karl J]

By mid-afternoon the novelty of nodding & agreeing at the required time & place had worn very thin.

Breydon today :

Avocet - about 300 ish ( a very impressive sight when all in flight. I'd guess these are maybe the breeding flock from upriver at Buckenham)

Oystercatcher
Whimbrel x 1
Redshank
Little Egret x 3
Black-tailed Godwit - about 40 ish
Shelduck
Mallard
Lapwing
Herring Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Tern
Cormorant - 25 ish
Blackbird
Magpie
Woodpigeon
Starling
Swallow


Too wet and windy for butterfly id, the few that were about were being blown all over the place.

[pduxon]

Quite frightening how little shopping I've done since I've taken up birding.

Last winter I spent a dreary day at Fowlmere. There were 3 of us in the main hide with a few Mallard and Canada Geese to watch and it was foggy and cold. We got chatting and agreed that it was way better than Christmas Shopping !!

[birdman]

Not bad at all... and definitely better than shopping!

Did you get drenched today Carlos?

[Karl J]

I know what you mean Pete, it can really take over can't it.

Fortunately didn't get drenched. I suppose that was the one saving grace of being in the town this morning, we were inside ( in Palmers, I think ) when the heaviest rain fell.

There's a bit of a silver lining about Asda in Yarmouth as well, it's only 2 mins walk to Breydon.

[Gerry Hooper]

WE popped over to Budleigh to see the Peregrines a while ago .
There was a male sitting on the cliff doing nothing (they're good at that) so we left after an hour or so.
On the way home a visit to Sainsbury's produced the goods,there was an energetic peregrine buzzing around everywhere chasing everything in sight!
M.F.I.= My Furniture's Incomplete.