It looks like I've hit my target 6 1/2 months early!! It appears i missed out the first two from previous months. Just as I thought the excellent spring was all over this week returned to form, Crossbills, Siskins and a couple Mistle Thrush have been moving south, a Reed Warbler and Marsh warbler took up residence in my garden for a day and last night, while watching a fantastic spectacle of 1500+ swifts moving south in an hour, they were joined by 3 Spoonbills. What a spring in east Norfolk!!!
144 Black Tern (was actually #125)
145 Grey Plover (was actually #140)
146 Red Crossbill
147 Marsh Warbler
148 Eurasian Reed Warbler
149 Mistle Thrush
150 Eurasian Spoonbill
72: Hobby !!
72: Hobby !!
Late June sometimes turns up oddities at our altitude we’ve found, both here and at our previous place, presumably post or failed breeding wanderers from lower down but to get two in five minutes while eating our porridge this morning was a nice surprise. I was curious as to why the ‘Great Spotted Woodpecker’ arrived in the cherry tree was not shimmying up the trunk as usual but staying pretty still, so got out the bins and was chuffed to see it was only our second ever
78 Middle Spotted Woodpecker
My wife kept an eye on it while I scrambled for the camera but of course it moved off before I was sorted out :C.Still, when the second surprise arrived in the same tree a couple of minutes later I was able to photograph the visitor, an adult
79 Spotted Flycatcher
Usually it’s August before I see them here as they head south, so this was a first June record for the garden.:t:
Clearly...both “well spotted” then Richard.
Indeed, well worth letting the porridge go lukewarm :t:
I suppose the excitement of a double whammy!...was just a prelude to you enjoying your oats later.
75: Common Crossbill
NINE over!!
June has been good!