eco
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Id head for north norfolk along any of the coastal marshes for the short eared owls, the long eared owl is nocturnal and very shy so may need a spot of luck on your side!
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Norfolk birding (36 Viewers)
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Id head for north norfolk along any of the coastal marshes for the short eared owls, the long eared owl is nocturnal and very shy so may need a spot of luck on your side!
dbradnum
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I wouldn't, though I guess they are probably there.
Best place I know is to walk out from Halvergate to Berney Arms windmill - on a cold blue-sky day, it's fantastic, and you'd be unlucky not to see SEO. (Though I don't know what numbers are like in this particular winter).
Another route where I've had some success is to walk out to St Benets Abbey from just south of Ludham.
And as suggested, walking out along the New Cut at Haddiscoe (park under the flyover bridge at St Olaves) is likely to be good as well - I'm surprised there's not a Rough-legged Buzzard out there yet, either!
I don't know of any LEO sites at the moment, and I doubt that anyone will publicise them if they do.
Alison Allen
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There hasn't been a short-eared owl on the marshes at Haddiscoe yet this year (or a rough-leg though these usually appear later in the winter, January/February). A short walk along the Haddiscoe New Cut on Sunday gave me bittern and bearded tit so it's always worth a look.
john miller
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Humes warbler performing well between the old kissing gate and the toilet block at Wells this pm, also a trumpeting Northern Bullfinch along the Quags track at Kelling.
John
http://kellingnaturegallery.fotopic.net/
John
http://kellingnaturegallery.fotopic.net/
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David Norgate
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What time was the N Bullfinch - would have tried at lunchtime if I'd known!
Some photos are showing the HYBW as a seemingly bright individual (don't think I've ever seen one as 'yellow').
john miller
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Bullfinch was seen mid morning but flew off onto Muckelbourgh hill, not sure if it returned as I was on my second Norfolk twitch of the year to the Humes.
Yes it was a bright bird with a paler bill than those I have seen in the past, but all the other boxes ticked.
john
john miller
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Re message 10446, I am obviously living in the past. The old kissing gate for those new to the area is/was through the kissing gate from the car park, where the track forks the old kissing gate used to be on the left, the old toilet block is some 200yds up the track on the right. Cannot remember when the old gate was removed, but it was sometime after 1970!!!
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David Norgate
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firstreesjohn
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Sheringham Waxwing
As I lurched, staggered and slid to fetch my weekly dose of baked wheat product just now, a Waxwing flew over me, along The Boulevard and may have gone down in gardens along North Street.
I could not locate it on my way back.
Pictured below is the view from my living-room window this morning- before the white-out. A few berries may be seen in the distance.
As I lurched, staggered and slid to fetch my weekly dose of baked wheat product just now, a Waxwing flew over me, along The Boulevard and may have gone down in gardens along North Street.
I could not locate it on my way back.
Pictured below is the view from my living-room window this morning- before the white-out. A few berries may be seen in the distance.
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You must have a good seabird list on your house list with a view like that!
Paul
Thing
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The last few days have been rather productive in Yarmouth while the wind has been favourable...
A blog post...
Today, despite the fog, was rubbish!
A blog post...
Today, despite the fog, was rubbish!
firstreesjohn
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Cold prevents Hume’s. Cold commits Humeicide ?
I managed to leave my sick-bed and go birding today, for the first time this week. Unfortunately, it was too late for what is now, presumably, the late Hume’s at Wells. It had, according to information received, looked quite poorly yesterday- seeming to suffer from something akin to Ovenbirditis.
Once having left the perilous packed-snow-sheets of my immediate vicinity, the drive was surprisingly easy and Salthouse soon reached. Mrs Bling the Stonechat was hard by the car park; Lapwings and Golden Plovers down everywhere.
The Blue Tit had re-appeared at Gramboro’, but again avoided photographic capture. I flushed a Woodcock, it flushed a Snow Bunting and then went down a little way away- I had good views, as it flew into the field.
Walsey held an unusually chattering Blackbird, amongst many, but nothing of real note.
A Redpoll sp rattled above and flew out of view, as I parked further east. Muckleburgh could be the place ! Indeed, my heat missed a beat, as I flushed a black thrush showing a flash of white. Unfortunately, it was a slightly mottled male Blackbird- a very partial albino (although I’m not sure to what it was partial.) My speckleation thus was ended.
What may have begun as a snowman was south of the airfield. It is, however, definitely more Picasso than Calder, being cuboid, rather than able to move- when it might have been labeled a snow-mobile.
Re Paul’s #10452: I don’t suppose many house lists in the UK include Lesser Crested Tern.
I managed to leave my sick-bed and go birding today, for the first time this week. Unfortunately, it was too late for what is now, presumably, the late Hume’s at Wells. It had, according to information received, looked quite poorly yesterday- seeming to suffer from something akin to Ovenbirditis.
Once having left the perilous packed-snow-sheets of my immediate vicinity, the drive was surprisingly easy and Salthouse soon reached. Mrs Bling the Stonechat was hard by the car park; Lapwings and Golden Plovers down everywhere.
The Blue Tit had re-appeared at Gramboro’, but again avoided photographic capture. I flushed a Woodcock, it flushed a Snow Bunting and then went down a little way away- I had good views, as it flew into the field.
Walsey held an unusually chattering Blackbird, amongst many, but nothing of real note.
A Redpoll sp rattled above and flew out of view, as I parked further east. Muckleburgh could be the place ! Indeed, my heat missed a beat, as I flushed a black thrush showing a flash of white. Unfortunately, it was a slightly mottled male Blackbird- a very partial albino (although I’m not sure to what it was partial.) My speckleation thus was ended.
What may have begun as a snowman was south of the airfield. It is, however, definitely more Picasso than Calder, being cuboid, rather than able to move- when it might have been labeled a snow-mobile.
Re Paul’s #10452: I don’t suppose many house lists in the UK include Lesser Crested Tern.
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Thanks to those who responded to my message.
Irene Boston
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Redpolls
At least 40+ Lesser Redpolls at Dersingham Bog this morning with a minimum of 8 Mealys amongst them.... try as I might, I couldn't magic up an Arctic, although I was only equipped with bins at the time so could easily have missed something more juicy.
At least 40+ Lesser Redpolls at Dersingham Bog this morning with a minimum of 8 Mealys amongst them.... try as I might, I couldn't magic up an Arctic, although I was only equipped with bins at the time so could easily have missed something more juicy.
