Yes, this IS the right channel !
Harris Hawk! Does anyone have any experience of this species in Norfolk?
http://www.birdforum.net/showpost.php?p=2366009&postcount=15228
Jim: above is the link to my relevant post, from February. Whatever their origins, they are dramatically handsome birds in flight.
Cracking bird! Shame it wasn't put out to the wider world.
As for the ‘blue headed wagtail’, please note the qualification (in brackets) for this bird and my earlier post yesterday.
Flava wagtails have been passing through in small numbers along the coast, for the last few days, unfortunately without staying put for very long, wherever I've seen them. This bird, apparently, put down for a minute and
was reported to the VC, as I said- albeit more than an hour after it had gone. Vainly did I search, immediately I saw the pic. Pat will testify how fast I progressed along the boardwalk and many know my predilection for the wag fraternity- and sorority.
A recent and
very similar bird is on this Fair Isle site:
http://fibowarden.blogspot.co.uk/
“A wag with blue bonce had a loiter,
Near Bish Hide- I
did reconnoitre.
It stayed for a minute,
I’ll just bear and grin- it
Was def’nit'ly not an all-nighter.”
If I posted some of the things I came across while 'Birding in Norfolk', I would definitely be banned, although I'm sure I could find somewhere where people would be interested in them!!
Yes, Dave: come to think of it, a quick (?) walk to Holkham, on a sunny day, would enable photographic product of this
nature.