Irene Boston
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That would be great, thanks Irene. I'm sure you'll pull Little Owl out of the bag for us at least!
Sooo, no pressure then!
That would be great, thanks Irene. I'm sure you'll pull Little Owl out of the bag for us at least!
OK, next square in need of a bit of winter help is TG22, which is the one containing Coltishall, Buxton and the south edge of North Walsham. Anyone live around here? Not that far from the north side of Norwich either. There's some decent patches of woodland, and the upper reaches of the Bure Valley.
The omissions for this square aren't quite so major as for TG24, but there should be the chance of getting a few more dots on the maps. Quite a few waterbirds missing that could be present along the valley - no Wigeon, Shoveler, Pochard, Great Crested Grebe (must be along the river somewhere), Bittern, Water Rail, etc. Now that spring is approaching, there must also be an excellent chance of Oystercatcher being present, whilst the wide open spaces around Coltishall airfield seem a reasonable bet for a Peregrine perhaps. One missing species here is Little Owl, which has got to be present somewhere but can take a little finding (perhaps by an evening visit). Might the woods near North Walsham hold Crossbill, or still harbour LS Woodpecker (I've a feeling I remember someone reporting one from this area some time over the last few years?) Finally, still no Waxwing for the square...
Again, please help if you can - thanks!
I live not too far away from there and in the last two years i have had: Red Kite, Mealy Redpoll, Stone Curlew, Little Egret, Common tern, Little Owl, Whimbrel, Crossbill, Redshank, Oystercatcher etc etc (80 sps) over my tiny garden ... i have also walked the areas listed so I will log on and submit the details asap!
Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler at Strumpshaw y'day?!?!?!?!
Hi all
There's just a couple of weeks left until the end of winter no 3 for the current Bird Atlas project. We've identified a few gaps that SURELY someone can fill, possibly just by looking at their notebook, or possibly by a short saunter this weekend.
Firstly, does anyone regularly watch the coast between East Runton and Overstrand, including Cromer. There's a little sliver of a 10km square here - TG24. There's not a lot of water in it (apart from the North Sea that is) - just a few ponds according to the OS map, but surely there's a Mallard and a Moorhen in it somewhere? These haven't been recorded yet for this square. Just think of the glory if you could provide those dots for the atlas maps! Seriously, there's quite a few other surprising omissions from the list recorded for this square in winter so far, including Common Scoter, Buzzard, Coot, Golden Plover, Lapwing, Redshank, Curlew, Kittiwake, Razorbill, Tawny Owl, Rock Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Fieldfare, Goldcrest, Marsh Tit, Siskin and Yellowhammer, to name but a few. There must be someone who watches this area regularly?
You can submit records online via http://www.bto.org/birdatlas/, or if that's not your cup of tea then let me know and we'll post you some paper forms.
More Norfolk squares to follow...
Finally been persuaded to put all my records into BirdTrack so I spent 2 hours this afternoon putting in my first 10 or so records. I've got 2 years worth of survey data from one site to put in - it's going to take a while! Also some interesting records from Denver Sluice...it should be rewarding in the end (I hope)!
Hi Andy
Thats part of my patch and should be able to add most of the above, and I'll also have a look round over the next week or so for any that I haven't specifically noted down.
Regards
Simon
The Black Redstart was still along the cliffs east of the car park at West Runton today although it was fairly mobile and elusive due to lots of walkers out enjoying the sunny day and the disturbance from a number of paragliders which were going low along the cliffs, tho I did manage a couple of pics which are attached below.
Also a couple of pics below of Brambling from a flock of 20+ birds at Roughton, with a few Lesser Redpolls having also joined the same finch flock this week.
Simon