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    Rosy black headed gulls Norfolk UK

    No photos sorry. I was doing a wildfowl count yesrerday and while running through a flock of 150 BH gulls at a range of 40 m I was amazed to find 20 of them had rich pinky breasts and belly with faint pink traces on the neck and back. I have noticed faint pinkish shades in the breeding season ...
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    Raptor watchpoints - Swanton Novers

    Just a quick reminder as May is almost upon us that the Wensum Valley watchpoint at Gatley is no longer running and the car park is closed. The Swanton Novers Raptor Watchpoint is however open , but at the moment the grass is waterlogged and I would sugest any visitors left it a week or so in...
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    Honey Buzzard watchpoints.

    Just a quick note to inform those interested both the Swanton Novers and Wensum Valley Watchpoints are open now. Visitors to the Wensum Valley Watchpoint should take care as the path has become very rutted by farming opperations this winter and at the moment the ground is rock solid and too hard...
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    Disturbance to woodland raptors

    A group of friends were talking about raptors and disturbance a while ago and though we live in a county with several hundred breeding pairs of common buzzards , goshawks and honey buzzards , none of us could name a wood open to regular public access that these large forest raptors bred in...
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    Help with Iberian Chiffchaff song link

    While doing Common Bird Census this morning I heard a strange chiffchaff. It started with the standard Chiff , Chiff and then descended into a series of blue tit like song notes . This was repeated many times. The bird was 50 ft up in a oak and through the bins looked a normal chiffchaff though...
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    Wensum Valley watchpoint - Gately. Car park changes

    The car park for the Wensum valley Watch point has changed this year though the viewing point is the same as in the past. Last year the landowner changed the field boundaries ploughing up the old path up the hill. Natural England have got an agreement for a new car park some 250 yards further...
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    Raptors attracted by shooting.

    I have seen a number of instants of raptors being attracted by people shooting. Yesterday a guy was pigeon shooting over decoys and 3 buzzards hung in the air over on and off all afternoon sometimes for 1\2 an hour at a time. They aproached him to within 40 yards at times and showed no reaction...
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    Wing Tagged Common Buzzards.

    A wingtagged common buzzard was present at Swanton Novers , Norfolk yesterday. It had a white wing tag visiable above and below the right wing. Despite good views no letters or numbers were visable. Anyone any idea where It might have come from.
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    Panting dragonflies ?

    I was having a close look at a male broad bodied chaser this afternoon and was surprised to see what appeared to be panting . I know insects do not have a mammal type lung system , but the abdomen was heaving as though panting was taking place. It was resting on a hazel bush in a warm ride...
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    Honey Buzzards

    There seems to be an absence of honey buzzard records on here at the moment. The birds at Swanton Novers Watch point\ Wensum Valley Watch Point arrived this weekend bang on time. Has anyone else seen honey buzzards yet this year. For their own protection from egg collectors and disturbance...
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    Kumlien gull what is it ?

    Can anyone tell me what:news: a Kumliens gull is . Its not listed in BWP or Collins Bird Guide. Yet its listed on the rare bird map , but it is not even given mega status ?
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