Paul Woolnough
Well-known member
Fieldcraft what is that?
Out of curiousity I can only think of five birds I have seen in East Norfolk (Happisburgh to Yarmouth via Hickling) and no where else in Norfolk.
Greater yellowlegs (same bird previously ticked in Suffolk)
Ring-billed Gull (better views of long-staying Suffolk and Essex birds)
Bonaparte's gull (previously ticked in Kent, why leave Norfolk for new birds!!)
plus only two not seen anywhere else
Great spotted cuckoo Cart Gap when flushed from a garden by a nameless person, not me: I was told to stand further back by the aforesaid! (I dipped the 2009? bird.)
Black lark (which many east of county birders travelled to South Stack to tick. I was not interested even though a seat was probably free in the car they used.)
Agreed. A photographer known to all told Lee Evans to stop telling new arrivals where the Warham Pit radde's was lest the bird be scared off.Fieldcraft is often not displayed by the most eminent birders at a ‘twitch’; a camera (which I, too, carry), often used as license to stand substantially nearer than ‘mere’ birders.
Out of curiousity I can only think of five birds I have seen in East Norfolk (Happisburgh to Yarmouth via Hickling) and no where else in Norfolk.
Greater yellowlegs (same bird previously ticked in Suffolk)
Ring-billed Gull (better views of long-staying Suffolk and Essex birds)
Bonaparte's gull (previously ticked in Kent, why leave Norfolk for new birds!!)
plus only two not seen anywhere else
Great spotted cuckoo Cart Gap when flushed from a garden by a nameless person, not me: I was told to stand further back by the aforesaid! (I dipped the 2009? bird.)
Black lark (which many east of county birders travelled to South Stack to tick. I was not interested even though a seat was probably free in the car they used.)