firstreesjohn
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I refer to page 20 of this document: https://assets.publishing.service.g...itive-features-report-north-norfolk-coast.PDF
A friend has done the necessary research (thru Nflk Bird Reports, dating back to 1953) and informs me that he “saw nothing that suggests that Bitterns have successfully bred at Cley or Salthouse in recent times. Indeed I there was nothing to suggest that Bitterns have nested at Salthouse in the last 50 years or so, but in recent times the reports haven’t mentioned specific breeding sites.”
Now, have I missed booming from the extensive Salthouse reed-beds in my thousands of visits in the last 20 years ? Have various, expert local birders who are resident there done the same ?
This is intriguing: are there suitable areas lurking in the vicinity that we don’t know about ? I await further information with interest.
On ‘protection’: the great work done by NT/NWT staff (in line with sections of this document) to rope off parts of the (Salthouse) shingle for breeding Ringed Plovers/Oystercatchers/Avocets is being vandalised. Iron posts have been uprooted and flung down; the cordoning orange twine snipped. This appears mainly to have been done by people too lazy to walk around it, on their way to the Little Eye.
There are also proposals to prohibit/limit access to various sites on the Coast, for similar reasons. Commendable. Other reasons include ‘safety’: e.g. the constant rescuing of walkers stranded on East Hills, because they don’t know how the countryside ‘works’/can’t be bothered to read signs/take notice of tide tables, etc. Less welcome.
A friend has done the necessary research (thru Nflk Bird Reports, dating back to 1953) and informs me that he “saw nothing that suggests that Bitterns have successfully bred at Cley or Salthouse in recent times. Indeed I there was nothing to suggest that Bitterns have nested at Salthouse in the last 50 years or so, but in recent times the reports haven’t mentioned specific breeding sites.”
Now, have I missed booming from the extensive Salthouse reed-beds in my thousands of visits in the last 20 years ? Have various, expert local birders who are resident there done the same ?
This is intriguing: are there suitable areas lurking in the vicinity that we don’t know about ? I await further information with interest.
On ‘protection’: the great work done by NT/NWT staff (in line with sections of this document) to rope off parts of the (Salthouse) shingle for breeding Ringed Plovers/Oystercatchers/Avocets is being vandalised. Iron posts have been uprooted and flung down; the cordoning orange twine snipped. This appears mainly to have been done by people too lazy to walk around it, on their way to the Little Eye.
There are also proposals to prohibit/limit access to various sites on the Coast, for similar reasons. Commendable. Other reasons include ‘safety’: e.g. the constant rescuing of walkers stranded on East Hills, because they don’t know how the countryside ‘works’/can’t be bothered to read signs/take notice of tide tables, etc. Less welcome.