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Norfolk birding
At least one on view from West Hide at Weeting last week -
Norfolk birding
There’s a large hornbeam in the paddock which is heaving with seeds, that is attracting the hawfinches at the moment and is why there are reports from all times of the day. The birds are usually buried in among the seeds, so take a ’scope and grill the tree! -
Norfolk birding
We had a productive day in the Brecks today, despite failing to find the great grey shrike. Cracking firecrest at Lynford Arboretum and 20+ waxwings at Santon Downham were highlights, but hawfinches at Santon Warren were probably best. We had two there at midday, 4 at 12.45 and at least 7 at... -
Norfolk birding
I think thanks are due to Paul and his team at Titchwell for handling the great knot twitch so well. We arrived within a couple of hours of the news getting out and were quickly directed to available parking and found our way to the bird. It's great to be welcome at a twitch! I guess the... -
Norfolk birding
I was stuck in stationary traffic on Queens Road at 5.20 last night, but had the pleasant distraction of the Norwich starling murmuration to ease the frustration. It seems rather larger than it was when I saw it a few weeks ago, and concentrated over St Stephen's Street and the roundabout... -
Norfolk birding
I saw it around 5-ish last Thursday as I drove along Chapelfield Rd towards the car park. Stew -
Norfolk birding
Thanks James, When I saw it, the flock was more densly packed than in your photo and I think there were more birds, but given your count there were certainly not as many as 1500! Any idea where they are roosting? Stew -
Norfolk birding
I was driving west along Queen's Road in Norwich this evening and at 4.34 was stopped at the traffic lights next to Sainsburys when I noticed a really nice "murmuration" of starlings swirling over the St Stephens / Chapelfield area. Hard to estimate numbers, certainly several hundred, maybe as... -
Norfolk birding
Well, I know and have spoken to the two birders who saw it on Saturday morning. They are extremely experienced, knowledgable and not at all trigger happy. I know that several birders who weren't even there have rubbished the record. That doesn't exactly encourage two people who were actually out... -
Norfolk birding
The Halfway House accro was identified as a Blythe's Reed by an extremely reliable Blakeney Point regular after getting very good views late morning / early afternoon. So only the two I'm afraid. -
Norfolk birding
There's an anecdote for that bird too! The late John Eaton arrived after work in his teaching clothes, to find an astonished local pointing at the birders wandering around on the mud: "they're even laying down in the mud!" (as was required to use the telescopes of the day) he gasped, only to... -
Norfolk birding
Reminds me of an anecdote my friend Pete tells of his early days in Norfolk when he'd moved from the Midlands in the 60s. Birding at Cley he and his companion found a lesser yellowlegs, which soon flew off. Shortly after, he told the legendary Richard Richardson of the find. Richard's response... -
Norfolk birding
Thanks Rob. Checked Cley Eye Field and Salthouse Little Eye without success this morning, but managed to catch up with a nice male just west of the beach car park at Weybourne. Saw the black redstart at Felbrigg Hall and the Garganey at Weybourne, so a few migrants hanging in despite the... -
Norfolk birding
RBA have stopped posting wheatears in pager messages for this year. Are there many along the coast at the moment? (Still haven't caught up with any). Stew -
Norfolk birding
Alderford Common was once a great site for nightingale. Back in the day I reckon there were at least four pairs there - when I lived at Reepham I could wind the car window down on my drive to and from work and hear them singing as I drove past! The birds disappeared at about the same time as... -
Norfolk birding
Over the border? Lynford and its arboretum are in Norfolk.. -
Norfolk birding
I arrived at Rockland at around 11.15 to learn that the GND had headed off down the dyke towards the river. By the time I got to the river it had disappeared around the bend towards Strumpshaw! Fortunately, just as I was giving up it came back. When I left at about 11.40 it was still on the... -
Norfolk birding
The night herons originally "escaped" from the wildlife park at Great Witchingham when their enclosure was damaged in the 1987 storm. I don't think any effort was made to recapture them, so for a few years they were regularly seen around Lyng & Lyng Easthaugh, usually returning to the wildlife... -
Norfolk birding
Santon Downham: depends which side of the river, which forms the county boundary. North of the river is Norfolk, South of the river is Another Place. -
Norfolk birding
Thanks Geoff, there's a perverse comfort in knowing I'm not alone. Could anyone recommend a network that still permits posting and receiving tweets via SMS? Someone suggested that using a long code will allow posting (but not receiving) on Vodafone and other networks, but the short code (which... -
Norfolk birding
While we're being technical.. I post to Twitter when I'm in the field using SMS from my mobile on Vodafone. This morning's posts didn't seem to be getting through, and I didn't receive any text notifications from birders I follow. Using my PC, I've discovered a message in my Twitter settings... -
Norfolk birding
But it was eating the mealworms put on the wall for it... Yesterday I went for another look at the Gorleston bird, and someone had put mealworms out for that one too. -
Norfolk birding
After several years of being very thin on the ground, isn't it great to have so many records of twite in the county? Any theories about why this sudden increase has happened? Is it improved breeding success and/or a shift in wintering area? Stew -
Norfolk birding
Thought the North Hide was moved to Kelling Hard.. -
Norfolk birding
OK, I bow to your clearly superior knowledge of the English legal system and we'll leave it at that then. Stew