Blimey you were a long way westwards! Saw the same birds in the morning John. Nice Pics!:t:Gramboro’ yieded little, save for a splash of autumn colour (LH photo).
Friary Hills gave a Meerkat lookalike. It ran past, looked back at me in surprise, didn’t like what it saw- and vanished under some brambles. I would not give up that easily ! Squeaking like Sweep on speed, I enticed it out a few times, enabling the two shots.
A long pilgrimage westwards resulted in the Holme Redneck. Such a lovely, delicate spinner. Flight views of Barred Warbler were again obtained. This is becoming a pattern. The Redback was better behaved.
Sorry to disappoint Jimbob, just got back from the fen with nothing much doing. I must admit I'm thinking it was most probably a Cetti's Warbler, they were singing and showing well tonight, would like to be proved wrong however!
...Tuesday looks really good, bit of rain to ground some birds, which at present are surely just passing through.
Cheers,
Jim.
As a county lister in Yorkshire, I am interested in who is in the top ten with their Norfolk list and how many is it.
In Yorkshire we have agreed a list along the BBRC and BOU guide lines, has that been done in Norfolk.
No, I wasn’t playing cards, when I should’ve been birding. Just as I was approaching the bushes at Gramboro’, I had a kindly ‘phone call (thank u, Julian), informing me of an Arctic Skua on one of the small pools, west of the Salthouse beach car park.
Deciding to ‘bush’ first (nothing), I made my way back west, only to be overtaken by a serious runner. Being able to see where the bird was, although not able to see the bird itself, I assumed that he would flush it before I reached there. He went straight past it, without effect- as can be seen from my pix. The bird seemed not in the best of health, but went off east a little while later.
The LH is with my Lumix FZ38, the RH digiscoped, for comparison. It was almost too close for the latter.
Even further west, at Stiffkey, I managed to glimpse a Redstart, have even worse views of the Barred Warbler (this is now REALLY NOT FUNNY) and better of 2 Whinchats. Long walks in several other locations provided nothing, save for the rather distant RbShrike at Weybourne.
what a cool bird, its a LTS on the deck but when it takes off it turns into an Arctic ; - ), could potentially be the same bird as last week which would explain alot, also casts new light on the Draycote bird.
a little action on the patch, 3 Wheatear and 2 Willow Warblers along Blakeney Bank, then Garden Warbler and Redstart on Friary, we have had one or two Pied Flys and Redstarts trickling in for a few days now - have a feeling if your out today you could do a whole lot better.