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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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    Norfolk birding

    60 Shags at the Hunstanton Cliffs roost again tonight
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    Norfolk birding

    60 Shags in the Hunstanton Cliffs roost tonight
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    Norfolk birding

    40 Shags roosted on Hunstanton Cliffs tonight. I managed to read 5 darvics and will report back when I hear from the scheme 'manager' at CEH. 26 Waxwings flew north at rooftop height along the promenade at about 15:15.
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    Norfolk birding

    That is the record Norfolk count Penny - by over 30 birds too (see post 18351 above). If recent trends continue though, it may not stand for too long !
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    Norfolk birding

    At least 37 Shags roosted on Hunstanton Cliffs again tonight. The birds tend to gather and swim close inshore from late afternoon onwards, but they don't seem to settle on the cliffs until its nearly dark: getting those darvics read will be a struggle. I've managed to read just one so far, but...
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    Norfolk birding

    At least 34 Shags roosted on Hunstanton Cliffs tonight
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    Norfolk birding

    At least thirty-seven shags roosted on Hunstanton Cliffs tonight
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    Norfolk birding

    At least 20 Shags roosted on the cliffs at Hunstanton tonight (Robert Smith had 33 recently and Dave Hawkins and I have both had counts of 24 in the days before the 'great fog'). This is a traditional roost site with at least one bird roosting nearly every winter. These are, however...
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    Norfolk birding

    Hi Andy - I can look westwards and northwards out to sea and inland to my east. Some/many of the Jays 'materialised' at great height to my north and east, hence my comment that they appeared to come from the north - off the sea. I was really offering the information to assist would-be observers...
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    Norfolk birding

    The grand total for Jays south over Hunstanton today was 537 birds.
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