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Norfolk birding (47 Viewers)
- Thread starter Edward woodwood
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eco
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Thanks Stratton Birder, we were planning on heading to Strumpshaw fen after Buckingham but spent over an hour watching the Ruddy Shelduck and other geese/ducks.
john miller
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You, argumentative, can't believe thato
I think behaviour is quite key at this time of year as well.
They seemed to ascend from the same wood and just cruise and interact with each other in a friendly 'teaching' manner!
Wonder if anyone could point me in the direction of online papers on family groups and interaction?
ahh as an expert on 'teaching' I suppose I have to concede to a professional, presume Buzzards behave the same as kids o
John
Penny Clarke
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None of us are expert in choosing the right week, but I have booked 3 days mid October and the last week of October!
Seriously though, we all get it wrong sometimes. I remember in 2010 I booked a week in mid-October and I most definately got it right, Olive-backed Pipit, 3 Red-flanked Bluetails, Pallas's Warbler etc - other times I have most definately got it wrong! Luck of the draw really, so mid October or last week? I wouldn't want to choose which week for you!Update: as John M. said (forgot to add this, very important), easterly winds:t: westerly winds:-C
Good Luck with your choice!
Penny:girl:
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john miller
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Any week in Oct, early Nov, but wait for the weather, if westerly forget it, any change to the East get up here.
John
Sorry Down here
David Norgate
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ahh as an expert on 'teaching' I suppose I have to concede to a professional, presume Buzzards behave the same as kids o
John
Lol! Gotta be good at something!
PS some of the kids are Buzzards (sic) these days!
(but not, obviously the ones I teach - just to get myself off the hook!!)
VillagerFred
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Recommend you pop down to Snettisham an hour before high tide, there are knot flocks that winter there that number in the tens of thousands and always make impressive images
David Norgate
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The spectacle at Snettisham is amazing, but if you want pics of birds along the shoreline, then I don't think there is anywhere that beats Titchwell!
Fast Ricky
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Thanks
Thank you David and VillagerFred - I'm going straight to the tide tables! Hopefully good weather at the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on. Impatiently yours.
Thank you David and VillagerFred - I'm going straight to the tide tables! Hopefully good weather at the weekend and I'll let you know how I get on. Impatiently yours.
firstreesjohn
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The situation is so weather-dependent that, this early, it’s impossible to predict with anything approaching accuracy.
This was borne out with last week’s possible, but disappeared, easterlies. Blame the Atlantic !
Some years, it doesn’t really happen, here.
You’ll have to take pot luck- that is, unless you are able to drop everything and just arrive. In that case, wait for EASTERLIES. Good luck. (We're waiting for them, just as eagerly.)
And I think Penny’s (#17724) got it wrong: you’ll have a bluer face in those easterlies. Brrrrr.
Thanks for the various replies about habitat and berry extirpation; think I’ll hedge my bets. At least it wasn’t devastating the westernmost track itself- for the mo. (Is this tempting The Fates?)
Archie Opteryx
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Or perhaps if they had stopped?
But yes, It was an assumption based on quantity, habitat, the fact that they were fairly close together tied in with the info I had regarding the influx - that was based much further south, towards Kent etc.
Still don't know how to pronounce Ashmenaugh.
Thanks for the replies.
. Yes that's the tricky part. To get from here whilst waiting long enough to see a weather forecast but not too late that there's nowhere to stay (and the ferry becomes about a million pounds a ticket). This will be our 7th trip to Norfolk and we haven't had easterlies once yet . |
|Thanks. Was trying to aim for that weekend after staring at magic seaweed (the website not a weird physic substance) all morning.
firstreesjohn
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I’ve tried that- but it doesn’t have much effect. Example for you to essay, below.
Perhaps, if you substituted ‘mushrooms’ (?). Although, probably, ‘staring’ is not the technique to utilise, either.
As I said previously: good luck !
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David Norgate
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Only a Pec Sand (!) the pipit was erroneous! Lovely bird in super light!
john miller
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You were not the only one, most of the locals did their daily check of the area. Presume the bird arrived about 11am, would have almost certainly have been found before if it had been there earlier.
John
SueBryan
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I saw a late Common Swift as I was driving home from Titchwell this evening at Choseley crossroads.
Jays have certainly been moving through, flying over habitats not usually associated with them. There were large numbers of House Martins over Narford Lake on Sunday with a few Sand Martins too. There have been 3 Ruddy Shelduck at Pentney for a few days now.
Sue
Jays have certainly been moving through, flying over habitats not usually associated with them. There were large numbers of House Martins over Narford Lake on Sunday with a few Sand Martins too. There have been 3 Ruddy Shelduck at Pentney for a few days now.
Sue
Reader
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I wonder if this is spread over most of Britain as well because a work colleague mentioned yesterday that where he goes shooting in north Warwickshire he noticed quite a few Jays about, far more than he would normally see.
John
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