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Norfolk birding (41 Viewers)
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stuart white
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I assume these aren't photos of said osprey? If so it's the weirdest osprey I've ever seen?!
firstreesjohn
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That’s Tawn it !
Arriving at Salthouse Beach car park, I strode towards Gramboro’, meeting another local birder on the way. We discussed the possible origins of the Blue Tits that had recently descended on us and the changes in the plumage of the male Stonechat.
[The Online Ringing Report of the BTO shows that only one was ringed in Scandinavia (Norway) and recovered here (Suffolk); the other 8 were ringed on the near-Continent: http://blx1.bto.org/ring/countyrec/resultsall/rec14620all.htm]
At the far end of The Hill, I heard a cheup, immediately proclaiming “Tawny Pipit!” to my companion, looked in the direction of the sparrow-like call and saw a large pipit flying away from us. Another was with it.
They appeared to land in the middle of the field- but even four of us scanning for a good half-hour did not turn them up again.
The info was written in the Cley NWT VC/CBC logbook and also passed to one of the bird news dissemination services.
Wells Woods had almost as many birders as birds. I heard one of the Yellow-broweds, but was unable to visually locate it.
A male Migrant Hawker sunned itself at the south of the first section.
Perhaps it’s embarrassed, Stuart.
Arriving at Salthouse Beach car park, I strode towards Gramboro’, meeting another local birder on the way. We discussed the possible origins of the Blue Tits that had recently descended on us and the changes in the plumage of the male Stonechat.
[The Online Ringing Report of the BTO shows that only one was ringed in Scandinavia (Norway) and recovered here (Suffolk); the other 8 were ringed on the near-Continent: http://blx1.bto.org/ring/countyrec/resultsall/rec14620all.htm]
At the far end of The Hill, I heard a cheup, immediately proclaiming “Tawny Pipit!” to my companion, looked in the direction of the sparrow-like call and saw a large pipit flying away from us. Another was with it.
They appeared to land in the middle of the field- but even four of us scanning for a good half-hour did not turn them up again.
The info was written in the Cley NWT VC/CBC logbook and also passed to one of the bird news dissemination services.
Wells Woods had almost as many birders as birds. I heard one of the Yellow-broweds, but was unable to visually locate it.
A male Migrant Hawker sunned itself at the south of the first section.
Perhaps it’s embarrassed, Stuart.
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Redbridge
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I have to agree here. Not wishing to flare up another argument however. Perhaps the wrong pictures were uploaded.
David Norgate
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I wonder if 40 ish people might have had a better chance of relocating them?
By the time the chinese whispers had reached me, they were just 'flyovers'
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Mark Batten
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David Norgate
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Connor Rand
Norwich resident, Holme devotee
and from website... 'a really dark juvenile Osprey!'
please, no.... surely this can't be the bird in question :eek!:
David Norgate
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Obviously, I am going to make no comment! I had to look up what 'vituperative' meant!!
firstreesjohn
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It's flown off, Connor.
With one Richard's, yesterday, and two Tawnies, today, which three Pipits will I hear/see tomorrow ?
Probably, Meadow.
David Norgate
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Meadows all I heard today, obviously I am doing (and have done) something wrong!
Mark Batten
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The 1944 film tawny pipit filmed meadow pips. Why don't you do the same- nobody would notice
Hirundapus
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It's now dark and still no mention of any Tawny Pipits on RBA. I call that suppression.
Penny Clarke
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Bird of the day
The only good bird I saw and found today was a nice Pied Flycatcher on the Fen Trail, Titchwell RSPB at 5.30pm, catching flies by the sycamore on the right hand side of the path just before Fen Hide.
Full update on blog.
Penny:girl:
The only good bird I saw and found today was a nice Pied Flycatcher on the Fen Trail, Titchwell RSPB at 5.30pm, catching flies by the sycamore on the right hand side of the path just before Fen Hide.
Full update on blog.
Penny:girl:
Dawn Balmer
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We went to look for this bird this morning, arriving just before 9am - about as early as we could get from Thetford with a 6 year old! Surprised there had been no news either way by this stage. I phoned out the negative news just after 9. There were fewer than 10 birders there.
There were 8 Ringed Plover in the field by the Lighthouse, and a Wheatear nearby. Bethany and I walked the beach for a good way towards the south. Offshore 3 Arctic Skuas, few Red-throated Divers, one Common Terns, few Sandwich Tern and a good number of auks passing.
Fast Ricky
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I think...
Had a great day, starting at Martham Broad; on to Horsey path to Horsey Corner, then to Strumpshaw. Highlights were a good, close(ish) sighting of the osprey at Strumpshaw, three (distant) cranes at Horsey and the attached (I hope) immature long-tailed skua (I think, but quite happy and grateful to bow to more experienced opinions) which flew up from Martham Broad and headed towards the sea. Returned home leg-weary and enjoyed a tea of nag pie with lashings of tongue.
Had a great day, starting at Martham Broad; on to Horsey path to Horsey Corner, then to Strumpshaw. Highlights were a good, close(ish) sighting of the osprey at Strumpshaw, three (distant) cranes at Horsey and the attached (I hope) immature long-tailed skua (I think, but quite happy and grateful to bow to more experienced opinions) which flew up from Martham Broad and headed towards the sea. Returned home leg-weary and enjoyed a tea of nag pie with lashings of tongue.
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Songkhran
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extraordinary pics Fast Ricky, i'm sure most posters will agree this is not usually the kind of angles we see Skuas! for that reason i'm quite happy to be proved wrong on this and hope the discussion/contributions will be educational.
from all three attachments I can see
A longer 'hand' than 'arm' - visa versa on Arctic
Clear demarcation of barring on undertail coverts + cold tones
blunted, longish tail streamers
reduced primary flashes
single shaft on underprimaries?
paler belly, and clear colour differentiation between head and belly
messy, more jagged and dotty underwing patterning (than Arctic)
steeper forehead
breasty more than chesty :smoke:
overall paler tones
intermediate (mocha) Long-tailed Skua for my money, Matham Broad you lucky so and so :t:
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firstreesjohn
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Interestingly, and almost simultaneously, another Tawny overflew AVL-terrein Eygelshoven, in the Netherlands: http://www.trektellen.nl/trektelling.asp?telpost=36&land=10&site=0&datum=20120929&taal=2
The record went ‘on’ at 2240h, over 5 hours after I posted on here. However, a few clarifications: they (2) flew west, not over Gramboro’, but the field to its south and did not land in the field, which is not stubble, but a grazing marsh. Apart from those . . . !
That skua’s (#17656) far too close for us Sheringham sea-watchers. We ID them before they even come over the horizon. “Simples!”
Hirundapus
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Exactly. Posting on here, or anywhere else on the net, is effectively suppression. If you want to share your birds, or get help looking for them, then you need to phone an information service direct, with the correct information, at the time.
