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Recent content by Andy in Norfolk

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    Cliff-nesting Common Swifts in Norfolk

    Hi Ernest - Ive only just seen your post but can confirm that a small number of Swifts (maybe 4-6 pairs annually) have nested in cervices in the cliffs at Hunstanton for at least the last 25 years - probably way longer. I don't know of any formal monitoring of numbers or productivity here though...
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    Norfolk birding

    43 today - plus 10 Linnets
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    A single White Admiral flew low, northwards, along Beach Road, Brancaster this afternoon. A new site maybe ?
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    Norfolk birding

    Thanks for ideas on the up-to-date county list guys. A big increase on the 277 in 1846 then.
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    Norfolk birding

    Can anyone provide the latest county species total please - I'm struggling to find it !
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    Norfolk birding

    Colour-ringed Twite in Norfolk Many of you will have noticed that the county is currently hosting more Twite than has been usual for the last few winters. Of the 51 birds in Thornham Harbour on 9th November, at least three were colour-ringed: Blue/metal (left leg) X Blue/White (right leg)...
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Two Clouded Yellows today at Holme NWT
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    Norfolk birding

    A spied a flock of 68 Jays circling over my Hunstanton house at 07: 30 hrs: I rushed to the cliffs but saw no others in the hour that I watched ! 4 Meadow Pipits were compensation though......
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    Norfolk fungi

    I'm sure it won't help with the ID, but here's a Titchwell Sarcoscypha sp.
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    Norfolk fungi

    Scarlet Elf Cups Plenty of Scarlet Elf Cups showing well today, either side of the path between car park and visitor centre at Titchwell - the best but inaccessible specimens being in water about 10 metres north of the path.
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    Norfolk birding

    Three Redhead Smew at Tottenhill GP and a Peackock Butterfly on Ringstead Downs today
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    Norfolk Butterflies and Moths

    Peacock on the wing on Ringstead Downs today
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    Norfolk birding

    No seabirds in Norfolk This isn't an entirely accurate account of breeding seabirds in Norfolk ! The county supports internationally important numbers of breeding Little Terns (several colonies along the north and east coasts, including the UK's largest -often (but by no means always) sited...
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    Norfolk birding

    To add to Titchwell's fine haul for today, a Bonxie flew east at about 12:40 and a first winter Little Gull was amongst the throngs of gulls following the trawlers offshore. I saw 18 Little Gulls off Gore Point about an hour later.
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    Norfolk birding

    Hunstanton Shags: 4 of the 5 birds whose darvics I managed to read on 5th November were ringed this year as chicks on the Isle of May, Fife whilst the other was ringed this year as a chick on Inchmickery, further westwards into the Firth of Forth.
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