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    Norfolk birding

    Would I be right in assuming that a pair of white storks, feeding in the wet meadows by the Acle straight near Yarmouth, will have popped over from Thrigby hall ?
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    Norfolk birding

    Buckenham Marshes Had a very pleasant walk from Strumpshaw, along to Buckenham station and down to the river today with my daughter. Was able to show her a Pair of Bullfinches up close with the morning sun on them, and then we found a pair of wings, from a freshly predated Golden Plover, on the...
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    Norfolk birding

    Not being one for joining the crowds, I took a leisurely stroll around Hickling reserve this morning. I honestly thought that I was in for the quietest day ever, when, after 30mins, my list stood at Bluetits 1...Woodpigeons 1. Luckily things did improve with good views of 5+ marsh harriers, a...
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    Norfolk birding

    At work today in the wood yard on Barn Rd, Norwich, I had the good fortune to be entertained all day by a pair of Grey wagtails. They spent the day chasing around the roof tops. Not very rare I know, but it cheered me up no end after biking to work in the rain....again.
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    Norfolk birding

    Predictably quiet at Strumpshaw today with 2 green sandpiper, green woodpeckers and hunting sparrowhawk the highlights. Better on the mammal front with otter and common shrew.
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    Norfolk birding

    Surlingham Church March. A quick walk round gave first cuckoo of the year, calling and brief fly past. Male Marsh Harrier carrying sticks off into the distance. Grasshopper warbler reeling rather weakly from the marshes and several blackcaps, willow warblers, chiffchaffs and sedge warblers...
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    Norfolk birding

    Overpriced ? I don't claim to have any experience of land prices, but how on earth can Pope's marsh be worth 1.2million? I was led to believe that good agricultural land is going for around £6500 to £7000 per acre. How can Pope's marsh, at best marginal grazing land, likely to be inundated...
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    Norfolk birding

    Surlingham Church March. Lovely wander about this morning, blackcap. chiffchaff and willow warbler all in song, green sandpiper flitting and calling over the scrape (lagoon) and two swallows over the river. Had a really good try at seeing a cetti's which was calling from an isolated bush...
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    Norfolk birding

    I think I also have seen this gull. About 11ish from the cliff top at cromer. Was with family and had left bins in the car, but large obviously creamy pale white gull with herring gulls just west of the pier.
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    Norfolk birding

    Cycled along the track behind Halfords in Norwich, alongside the Wensum. Had 8 chiffchaffs in song in the space of 1/2 a mile.
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    Norfolk birding

    I work in the city near the Catholic cathedral. Skeins of around 150-200 moving due west about 9.00am, on the 20th and again around 15.30, also due west.
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    Norfolk birding

    Around 50 are to be found in the area around KFC on Dereham Rd. the Lothian st, Midland st, Exeter st, Orchard street area. I have seen them every day since Thursday 11th, but they are mobile and are sometimes seen heading over the ring road towards the city centre.
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    Norfolk birding

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    Norfolk birding

    Not rare but unexpected. Flying over Frettenham this am I spotted a Gannet. It took some time for my brain to catch up with what I was seeing, but definately a Gannet. 2nd or 3rd year bird.
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    Norfolk birding

    How has the closure of the path been arranged??, The main track along the west bank is a public footpath.
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    Norfolk birding

    You need to go to Yarmouth market, that's the place for chips...and if you go for the big portion, those you can't manage are excellent for attracting the med gulls on the beach.
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    Norfolk birding

    Sorry about that, perhaps I should have said 'the well known site listed on page 21 of Neil Glenn's excellent guide to best birdwatching sites in Norfolk, That way no one would know that there are nightjars at ###### #####.
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    Norfolk birding

    Buxton Heath quiet too. I've just come in from Buxton Heath. One quick churr at 21.15 another at 21.25 then nothing. Left at 22.10 having realised I'd forgotten a torch and couldn't see a thing underfoot.
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    Norfolk birding

    My nextdoor neighbour's hedge used to attract house sparrows, attracted to the peanut feeders, and yet for ten years I never saw one in my garden. Then, one winter, I had upto a dozen sheltering in my hazel, they hung around long enough to be included on the big garden bird watch, then all...
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    Norfolk birding

    A glorious evening at Surlingham Swallows and house martins feeding over the water as gadwall and mallard dabble in the shallows past a pure white swan. A barn owl quarters the reedbeds while a chinese water deer browses at the edge, disturbing a lapwing. The songs of reed and sedge warblers...
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    Norfolk birding

    Managed to grab an hour before dusk at surlingham church marsh. 3 grasshopper warblers singing. cuckoo calling. at least 6 cetti's heard.
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    Norfolk birding

    It was me. It was in some silver birches about 100-150 yards north of the car park. Close views and certain of identity. I reported it to the 2 cars of birders next to me as I left, who then went to check it out before they released the info ( I don't have a mobile). When I got back home around...
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