kittykat23uk
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I saw a red kite on the way back from Cley, just past Roughton viewed from the A140 on way back to Norwich.
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Norfolk birding (25 Viewers)
- Thread starter Edward woodwood
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Osprey on the move friday afternoon. During some survey work close to Blofield I was watching a displaying male sparrowhawk when far above it a osprey came into the scope at extream height 700M +. It moved off slowly north. I never would have seen it with the naked eye , just luck it came into the scopes view.
Penny Clarke
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Glorious sunny weather, but dull birding day.
I am ashamed to say I had never been through Little and Great Snoring until today - beautiful villages, but NO Snowy Owl:-C Walked along the track 'Greenway' where it was first seen and walked almost as far as Little Walsingham and back - a surprise of a single redwing sat in a tree along the track, some cracking yellowhammers, loads of wood pigeons, great tits, robins, hedge sparrows and a kestrel. When I got back to the car I was then going to go to Little Snoring Airfield for the first time when the pager said Hoopoe at Thornage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So off I whizzed to Thornage
- on route had a fantastic close view of a Common Buzzard circling overhead (11.45) on the road between Great Snoring and the main road to Holt. Arrived at the bridge north of Thornage to find one birder who had met the man that saw the Hoopoe and apparently he saw it fly over the river and land in scrub, but disappeared and has not been found since. Not long after I got there BF Ruralchill arrived and we all searched around the immediate area to find nothing!!!! Nice spot to have my lunch though!
Left here and went to Hunworth Ford just to see if the Black Bellied Dipper was showing again - it wasn't!
Next stop Walsey Hills to find Adders - didn't find any! But did have my first 'Comma' No birds here at all apart from a hedgesparrow, robin and a water rail squealing. Also a couple of toads crawling along the bottom path.
Coastguards, Cley - sat on shingle watching the sea with no birds whats so ever apart from 2 summer plumage black headed gulls on roof of shelter in carpark. Big flock of brent geese on the marshes near North Hide/scrape.
Stiffkey Fen - well this was the best part of the day bird wise. I have not been here for a very long time and I had forgotten how lovely that walk is, especially in the late afternoon sun. A chiffchaff was singing along the path alongside the main road and on the back fields were hundreds of Brent Geese feeding. Saw the dodgy Snow Goose and also the Common Sandpiper feeding by the far left hand reeds (standing on seawall). Flushed a barn owl along the path too. Cetti's Warbler singing. Other birds seen were: 2 snipe, several pintail, shelducks, avocets, lots of teal, mallard and pochard, tufted ducks, oystercatchers, shovelers, redshanks, bar tailed godwits and black tailed godwits, 3 pied wagtails, 1 curlew, pair of yellowhammers, long tailed tits, 2 reed buntings, 2 linnets, turnstone, little egret, pair of gadwall, also loads of black headed gulls. Took some sunset pictures and back along the path just before the bridge with white metal rails (white bridges I think it is called locally) I had a fantastic surprise of a grey wagtail flitting about at 6.20pm!!!
Wells next Sea - Fish 'n' Chips for tea
Best Wishes Penny:girl:
I am ashamed to say I had never been through Little and Great Snoring until today - beautiful villages, but NO Snowy Owl:-C Walked along the track 'Greenway' where it was first seen and walked almost as far as Little Walsingham and back - a surprise of a single redwing sat in a tree along the track, some cracking yellowhammers, loads of wood pigeons, great tits, robins, hedge sparrows and a kestrel. When I got back to the car I was then going to go to Little Snoring Airfield for the first time when the pager said Hoopoe at Thornage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So off I whizzed to Thornage
- on route had a fantastic close view of a Common Buzzard circling overhead (11.45) on the road between Great Snoring and the main road to Holt. Arrived at the bridge north of Thornage to find one birder who had met the man that saw the Hoopoe and apparently he saw it fly over the river and land in scrub, but disappeared and has not been found since. Not long after I got there BF Ruralchill arrived and we all searched around the immediate area to find nothing!!!! Nice spot to have my lunch though!Left here and went to Hunworth Ford just to see if the Black Bellied Dipper was showing again - it wasn't!
Next stop Walsey Hills to find Adders - didn't find any! But did have my first 'Comma' No birds here at all apart from a hedgesparrow, robin and a water rail squealing. Also a couple of toads crawling along the bottom path.
Coastguards, Cley - sat on shingle watching the sea with no birds whats so ever apart from 2 summer plumage black headed gulls on roof of shelter in carpark. Big flock of brent geese on the marshes near North Hide/scrape.
Stiffkey Fen - well this was the best part of the day bird wise. I have not been here for a very long time and I had forgotten how lovely that walk is, especially in the late afternoon sun. A chiffchaff was singing along the path alongside the main road and on the back fields were hundreds of Brent Geese feeding. Saw the dodgy Snow Goose and also the Common Sandpiper feeding by the far left hand reeds (standing on seawall). Flushed a barn owl along the path too. Cetti's Warbler singing. Other birds seen were: 2 snipe, several pintail, shelducks, avocets, lots of teal, mallard and pochard, tufted ducks, oystercatchers, shovelers, redshanks, bar tailed godwits and black tailed godwits, 3 pied wagtails, 1 curlew, pair of yellowhammers, long tailed tits, 2 reed buntings, 2 linnets, turnstone, little egret, pair of gadwall, also loads of black headed gulls. Took some sunset pictures and back along the path just before the bridge with white metal rails (white bridges I think it is called locally) I had a fantastic surprise of a grey wagtail flitting about at 6.20pm!!!
Wells next Sea - Fish 'n' Chips for tea
Best Wishes Penny:girl:
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There were a few things moving through Titchwell this morning including 2 kestrel and a sparrowhawk.
Siskins were in evidence with 134 west in 2 hours, 8 crossbill (6 @ 0636, 2 @ 0713), 38 goldfinch, 19 jackdaw and a grey heron.
Paul
Titchwell March 22nd
Today's highlights
Crossbill - 8 (6 @ 06:36, 2 @ 07:13) west in 2 hours
Siskin - 134 west in 2 hours
Jackdaw - 19 west in 2 hours
Bittern - 1 'grunting' from Fen Hide
Tree sparrow - 1 on feeders
Brambling - 1 on feeders
Common buzzard - 1 west over reserve
Med gull - 2 on fresh marsh
Water pipit - 1 on fresh marsh
Spotted redshank - 2 on saltmarsh pool
Paul
Today's highlights
Crossbill - 8 (6 @ 06:36, 2 @ 07:13) west in 2 hours
Siskin - 134 west in 2 hours
Jackdaw - 19 west in 2 hours
Bittern - 1 'grunting' from Fen Hide
Tree sparrow - 1 on feeders
Brambling - 1 on feeders
Common buzzard - 1 west over reserve
Med gull - 2 on fresh marsh
Water pipit - 1 on fresh marsh
Spotted redshank - 2 on saltmarsh pool
Paul
Tim P
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Went to Titchwell missed most of the highlights but got good views of 1 of the 134 siskin!! Went via Choseley at lunchtime but only yellowhammers siskin and chaffinches to show. Working on the theory that later or early would be better finished at Choseley at 16.00 ish and rewarded with corn buntings and a yellow wagtail.
Birding Bob
Robert Williamson
RSPB Titchwell
Wippet
2 Adult Yellow-legged Gulls
Med Gull
2 Chiffchaffs
Robert
http://robertsnorfolkbirding.blogspot.com/
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Wippet
2 Adult Yellow-legged Gulls
Med Gull
2 Chiffchaffs
Robert
http://robertsnorfolkbirding.blogspot.com/
http://robertnorfolkmothing.webs.com/
ben_lewis
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stonechat
Cheers for that Rob, maybe I'm just being stringy and its a standard stonechat (a very well marked one though!). I have attached some very bad pics of my bird (Everyone seems to say that but these are taken through my bins resting on my knee!) but you get the general idea of colouring. This bird was dark backed and as can be seen has very wide white lines on the back, cant see the pale rump however, it looked very different to the others in the area. Is it a standard stonechat or something more interesting?
Ben
Cheers for that Rob, maybe I'm just being stringy and its a standard stonechat (a very well marked one though!). I have attached some very bad pics of my bird (Everyone seems to say that but these are taken through my bins resting on my knee!) but you get the general idea of colouring. This bird was dark backed and as can be seen has very wide white lines on the back, cant see the pale rump however, it looked very different to the others in the area. Is it a standard stonechat or something more interesting?
Ben
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Birding Bob
Robert Williamson
Took these pics yesterday of the Yellow-legged Gulls and the Water Pippet.
Robert
http://robertsnorfolkbirding.blogspot.com/
Robert
http://robertsnorfolkbirding.blogspot.com/
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NickPatel92
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Nice water pips, but aren't those gulls, Lesser blacks?
cheers.
cheers.
Tractorboy69
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Migrants etc
Despite the wind, rain and hail today, had a Wheatear at West Runton beach car park this afternoon.
Also a couple of Black Redstarts at Overstrand last week, and a few Mealy Redpolls amongst a flock of c30 Redpolls and other finches at Roughton.
However the highlight of recent days definitely goes to the first patch record of a Cetti's Warbler which appears to have set up temporary territory in an area of gorse and bracken over the last week. As usual it is a little skulker and took me four days to even manage this bad record shot of it, but its still a great little bird and a very welcome addition for our patch.
Simon
Despite the wind, rain and hail today, had a Wheatear at West Runton beach car park this afternoon.
Also a couple of Black Redstarts at Overstrand last week, and a few Mealy Redpolls amongst a flock of c30 Redpolls and other finches at Roughton.
However the highlight of recent days definitely goes to the first patch record of a Cetti's Warbler which appears to have set up temporary territory in an area of gorse and bracken over the last week. As usual it is a little skulker and took me four days to even manage this bad record shot of it, but its still a great little bird and a very welcome addition for our patch.
Simon
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My 4th visit of the year to Santon Downham produced the male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker for the first time today. The female (who I've seen previously) was also present and the pair produced a brief x-rated moment for the onlooking crowd of 7.
I then had 7+ Crossbills a bit further along the road beyond the level-crossing, with 2 males perched up giving good scope views!
Had 2 large raptors that "got away" at the weekend. The first was very low over Wymondham town centre on Saturday and my initial impression was Marsh Harrier, but the view was frustratingly brief before disappearing behind a shop roof so I couldn't rule out Red Kite. The second, on Sunday, was along the A47 between the A11 and A140, and was a harrier sp.
Chris
I then had 7+ Crossbills a bit further along the road beyond the level-crossing, with 2 males perched up giving good scope views!
Had 2 large raptors that "got away" at the weekend. The first was very low over Wymondham town centre on Saturday and my initial impression was Marsh Harrier, but the view was frustratingly brief before disappearing behind a shop roof so I couldn't rule out Red Kite. The second, on Sunday, was along the A47 between the A11 and A140, and was a harrier sp.
Chris
Penny Clarke
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Penny Clarke
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Jono L
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Yes he did, but he was too busy wrestling with two of his other dogs...
