Help with Nightjar Suffolk (1 Viewer)

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jun 19, 2012

• #1

Guys
any advise welcome...
Looking to hear and maybe even see Nightjar...given up a couple of nights to it recently but maybe i'm in the wrong place or at the wrong time
i'd welcome any advise on good locations and times to give me a better chance of hearing them churring.
I'm in Essex so thinking Suffolk is probably my best shot but willing to take a steer on it if anybody knows locations within an hour or so from the bottom of the M11
Had a cracking night last night in the Brecks with loads of good birds but no Nightjar again....I'm sure I heard these as a child but it just seems to be a bit of a bogey bird at the moment.B

 

Xenospiza

Distracted

• Jun 19, 2012

• #2

They're in Rendlesham Forest. Probably not the best place to see them (to be honest I didn't try), but hearing them was easy near the Forest Camping.

 

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jun 19, 2012

• #3

Thanks, I was hoping to find something on the A11 side of Suffolk but maybe I'll need to do the A12 run and try Rendlesham...maybe tag it onto a trip to the East coast.

 

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Original PaulE

Well-known member

• Jun 20, 2012

• #4

upper hollersey common near rendlesham is very good we heard several and saw a couple last month

cheers

 

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jun 21, 2012

• #5

cheers Paul.....i'll give this a go on the next warm (dry) evening we get.

 

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pete wragg

Well-known member

• Jun 22, 2012

• #6

Brian2 said:

Guys
any advise welcome...
Looking to hear and maybe even see Nightjar...given up a couple of nights to it recently but maybe i'm in the wrong place or at the wrong time
i'd welcome any advise on good locations and times to give me a better chance of hearing them churring.
I'm in Essex so thinking Suffolk is probably my best shot but willing to take a steer on it if anybody knows locations within an hour or so from the bottom of the M11
Had a cracking night last night in the Brecks with loads of good birds but no Nightjar again....I'm sure I heard these as a child but it just seems to be a bit of a bogey bird at the moment.B

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You need to take a tape and a big torch

see this thread http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=232776

 

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jun 22, 2012

• #7

No tape.....that's not my style. The torch may come in handy if I have to walk back in the dark but I won't be pointing it at any birds...To be honest I'd be quite happy to park up and just listen from the car if I thought I'd hear them rather than casuing any disturbance to them.

 

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watcher of the skies

New member

• Jun 22, 2012

• #8

Mayday Farm,just south of Brandon on B1106 can be good,i can also recommend Thursley Common in Surrey

 

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jun 22, 2012

• #9

Thanks..hadn't considered Surrey..might be closer to me. I'll look it up

 

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Himalaya

Well-known member

• Jun 26, 2012

• #10

None in Essex?

I have heard them churring 3rd week of July around Thetford Forest