Winterdune
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The Northern LTT record was apparently Andrew Grieve:
http://www.surfbirds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7585&page=2
Sean
http://www.surfbirds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7585&page=2
Sean
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firstreesjohn
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Tits
I find it supremely unhelpful that the post about these lovely tits gives the location simply as "Winterton".
This news will be three days old by tomorrow.
I haven't seen this form for several years and would love to again.
Someone please help to find these and make a bit of a glory day from these Paridae !
I find it supremely unhelpful that the post about these lovely tits gives the location simply as "Winterton".
This news will be three days old by tomorrow.
I haven't seen this form for several years and would love to again.
Someone please help to find these and make a bit of a glory day from these Paridae !
Lightthiscandle
David Bryant
Long Tails
Martin Read & I spent the morning at Winterton: found a big tit flock beneath the Hermanus, but no Northerns
We looked in the copse by the GPO substation too....
Does anyone know where they actually were?
BTW: our Broadband here in the Yare Valley is 11mbps
Martin Read & I spent the morning at Winterton: found a big tit flock beneath the Hermanus, but no Northerns
We looked in the copse by the GPO substation too....
Does anyone know where they actually were?
BTW: our Broadband here in the Yare Valley is 11mbps
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Brilliant to see the pink footed geese return to the N norfolk Coast in big numbers today. A few thousand have been about for over a month but today is the first time I have seen any sign of the major flocks . I recon there were about 45,000 comming off the sea at sunrise , a great sight worth a bush full of lost red flanked bluetails for me.
Several hen harriers were hunting at sunrise and I squeeked one lovely dove grey male to within 10 feet.
Several hen harriers were hunting at sunrise and I squeeked one lovely dove grey male to within 10 feet.
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Andy Musgrove
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Coltishall Waxwings
Hi all
BirdGuides is listing 50 Waxwings in Coltishall in Ormesby Road yesterday. Looking on Google Maps, this looks to be at RAF Coltishall, and so it is in TG22. If anyone has seen these, please could you add them to the Atlas (www.bto.org/atlas) as this is still a missing species for this square. There's still a few species we could do with locating in TG22, and this is the LAST winter to do so. As well as Waxwing, we still need
Wigeon
Pochard
Goosander
Grey Partridge
Great Crested Grebe
Bittern
Peregrine
Water Rail
Yellow-legged Gull
Little Owl
LSW
Crossbill
If you're passing, or want something to do with a day this winter, please have a hunt around TG22 and try to find some of these!
Thanks
Andy
Hi all
BirdGuides is listing 50 Waxwings in Coltishall in Ormesby Road yesterday. Looking on Google Maps, this looks to be at RAF Coltishall, and so it is in TG22. If anyone has seen these, please could you add them to the Atlas (www.bto.org/atlas) as this is still a missing species for this square. There's still a few species we could do with locating in TG22, and this is the LAST winter to do so. As well as Waxwing, we still need
Wigeon
Pochard
Goosander
Grey Partridge
Great Crested Grebe
Bittern
Peregrine
Water Rail
Yellow-legged Gull
Little Owl
LSW
Crossbill
If you're passing, or want something to do with a day this winter, please have a hunt around TG22 and try to find some of these!
Thanks
Andy
Titchwell this morning
Highlight was a juv dotterel on the fresh marsh with the golden plover flock although it is very mobile as the hide work is keeping them on the move. A couple days ago they were feeding in the fields on the west side of the Choseley road just south south of the A149.
43 twite feeding on the brackish marsh and at least 1 shorelark feeding on the tideline east of the beach platform.
Paul
Highlight was a juv dotterel on the fresh marsh with the golden plover flock although it is very mobile as the hide work is keeping them on the move. A couple days ago they were feeding in the fields on the west side of the Choseley road just south south of the A149.
43 twite feeding on the brackish marsh and at least 1 shorelark feeding on the tideline east of the beach platform.
Paul
Irene Boston
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Decent numbers have started to go over my house in Dersingham morning and evening now - always builds up during November and reaches its peak over the house by the end of the month and into December, and then tails off as the fields in the immediate vicinity are worked over. My favourite sight and sound of the winter is waking up to a pinkfooted alarm call.
firstreesjohn
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Wey two go, punks !
Depicted are two of the dozen Waxwings which were today gracing the treetops in Weybourne.
Gramboro’ had emptied and would not have been worth the walk, save for flyover Twite, Lap and 2 Snow Buntings. My chats seem to have scarpered.
Wells Woods became almost warm, with the sun breaking through from time to time. A Common Hawker was certainly NOT at the Drinking Pool- it was a Common Darter ! (Thanks, Stewart. I did mean Darter: my fingers didn't dart over the keys accurately enough.) Siskin, Redpoll and Crossbill were flyovers, too (or, three!).
It was good to see The McC again, after a little while, pushing his lovely 1W female who, at 10 months, already has some words; precocious, indeed. I can see her writing some of Dad’s rarie descriptions, soon. With the fantastic haul of LBJs he found on Shetland, he’ll be busy doing this for months.
Depicted are two of the dozen Waxwings which were today gracing the treetops in Weybourne.
Gramboro’ had emptied and would not have been worth the walk, save for flyover Twite, Lap and 2 Snow Buntings. My chats seem to have scarpered.
Wells Woods became almost warm, with the sun breaking through from time to time. A Common Hawker was certainly NOT at the Drinking Pool- it was a Common Darter ! (Thanks, Stewart. I did mean Darter: my fingers didn't dart over the keys accurately enough.) Siskin, Redpoll and Crossbill were flyovers, too (or, three!).
It was good to see The McC again, after a little while, pushing his lovely 1W female who, at 10 months, already has some words; precocious, indeed. I can see her writing some of Dad’s rarie descriptions, soon. With the fantastic haul of LBJs he found on Shetland, he’ll be busy doing this for months.
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Titchwell November 5th
Today's highlights
Dotterel - juv with golden plover flock briefly @ 08:00 only.
Twite - 53 feeding on brackish marsh
Shorelark - 7 on beach east of boardwalk but mobile
Snow bunting - 11 on beach west of platform
Lapland bunting - 2 on beach west of platform
Short-eared owl - 1 hunting near Thornham Point
Velvet scoter - 4 offshore
Caspian gull - 2 adults on fresh marsh late afternoon
There will be no work taking place on the hide this weekend so the fresh marsh should be disturbance free. The water levels are currently being raised to aid the control of some of the vegetation. Our aim is to get it as high a possible and try and cover some of the low-lying islands.
Paul
Today's highlights
Dotterel - juv with golden plover flock briefly @ 08:00 only.
Twite - 53 feeding on brackish marsh
Shorelark - 7 on beach east of boardwalk but mobile
Snow bunting - 11 on beach west of platform
Lapland bunting - 2 on beach west of platform
Short-eared owl - 1 hunting near Thornham Point
Velvet scoter - 4 offshore
Caspian gull - 2 adults on fresh marsh late afternoon
There will be no work taking place on the hide this weekend so the fresh marsh should be disturbance free. The water levels are currently being raised to aid the control of some of the vegetation. Our aim is to get it as high a possible and try and cover some of the low-lying islands.
Paul
Paul Woolnough
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BBRC Work in Progress update
No need to duplicate 2009 Norfolk Bird Report
Ref 2324 3 January 2010 Pacific Diver Titchwell NP = Not Proven (rejected:C)
Ref 2463 4 December 2009 Brunnich's Guillemot Cley IC = In Circulation (await decision)
Ref 2448 29 and 30 April 2010 Iberian Chiffchaff Titchwell OK = record accepted:t:
No need to duplicate 2009 Norfolk Bird Report
Ref 2324 3 January 2010 Pacific Diver Titchwell NP = Not Proven (rejected:C)
Ref 2463 4 December 2009 Brunnich's Guillemot Cley IC = In Circulation (await decision)
Ref 2448 29 and 30 April 2010 Iberian Chiffchaff Titchwell OK = record accepted:t:
black kite 1964
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Thats would be about right. This will be the third record of Brunnich's in Norfolk with the BBRC in recent years. One of the rejected records from Cley was seen by quality observers (showing the difficulties of getting rare seabirds past the BBRC).
The current record, seen by a single observer - is a birder/rarity finder of the highest calibre.
Hopefully, Brunnichs should make the Norfolk list at long last.
rlass and me
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as the song goes 'my bags are packed Im ready to go'
ok will be down saturday afternoon
not intending to move far from the north coast
1st time ever we have been at this time of year will def go to titchwell anyone know if the organised walks on monday are worth it
we had fun with the summer birds not got a clue what to expect this time of year
ok will be down saturday afternoon
not intending to move far from the north coast
1st time ever we have been at this time of year will def go to titchwell anyone know if the organised walks on monday are worth it
we had fun with the summer birds not got a clue what to expect this time of year
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firstreesjohn
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I think I’ll Jack it in ! It’s all gone west.
Checking Weybourne for the Waxwings, on my way west this morning, I drew a blank. Gramboro’ held a pair of Reed Buntings and 26 Snows flew east.
Bishop Hide, at Cley NWT, was where I was directed (thanks, Eddie), for one of my favourite birds. Almost 150 snaps later and one proved acceptable- the reeds kept getting in the way in the wind. The other shows the size difference between Jack and Common Snipe (LH bird of the two!).
Driving further west, along the straight to the ‘left’ of Morston, I found myself under a flock of 14 Waxwings. Suddenly, they dropped into a berry-laden bush at the side of the road and frenziedly began to devour the fruit. Suddenly, I stopped the car, reached for my camera, wound down my window . . . and they flew off west.
Wells Woods had a Chiffchaff in the Dell. Today, at least, I managed to find a flock of LtTits. Unfortunately, none had snowman-like heads. The colours are not quite as good as New England, but rather nice, nonetheless. This was just after a heavy downpour, this afternoon. The temperature rose slightly and the irritating, midgie-like thingies (technical, entomological term) emerged.
Checking Weybourne for the Waxwings, on my way west this morning, I drew a blank. Gramboro’ held a pair of Reed Buntings and 26 Snows flew east.
Bishop Hide, at Cley NWT, was where I was directed (thanks, Eddie), for one of my favourite birds. Almost 150 snaps later and one proved acceptable- the reeds kept getting in the way in the wind. The other shows the size difference between Jack and Common Snipe (LH bird of the two!).
Driving further west, along the straight to the ‘left’ of Morston, I found myself under a flock of 14 Waxwings. Suddenly, they dropped into a berry-laden bush at the side of the road and frenziedly began to devour the fruit. Suddenly, I stopped the car, reached for my camera, wound down my window . . . and they flew off west.
Wells Woods had a Chiffchaff in the Dell. Today, at least, I managed to find a flock of LtTits. Unfortunately, none had snowman-like heads. The colours are not quite as good as New England, but rather nice, nonetheless. This was just after a heavy downpour, this afternoon. The temperature rose slightly and the irritating, midgie-like thingies (technical, entomological term) emerged.
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Penny Clarke
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Choseley, Thornham and Titchwell RSPB
Stopped at Choseley to look for Dotterel, but no luck.
Thornham
The copse by the end of Greenway held a surprise of a Chiffchaff, 1 blackbird and a single robin.
Titchwell RSPB
A pair of Bullfinches in the carpark. Whilst queueing up for cheese and onion pastie, I heard the familiar voice of Eddie Myers at the front of the queue, who I spent the rest of the afternoon birding with. 3 Twite on the new embankment leading to the new hide along with a reed bunting and later on at least 9 Twite on the fresh marsh. A Cettis Warbler also burst into song for a few moments. 9 Shorelark were seen distantly on the beach at the far east end of the boardwalk after lots patience at 3.15pm! Back along the main bank we saw at 3 pintail, 1 Water Pipit, loads of Golden Plover and a Yellow legged Gull, several little egrets, lots of starlings and 2 Marsh Harriers and usual waders.
Best Wishes Penny:girl:
See pictures on blog.
Stopped at Choseley to look for Dotterel, but no luck.
Thornham
The copse by the end of Greenway held a surprise of a Chiffchaff, 1 blackbird and a single robin.
Titchwell RSPB
A pair of Bullfinches in the carpark. Whilst queueing up for cheese and onion pastie, I heard the familiar voice of Eddie Myers at the front of the queue, who I spent the rest of the afternoon birding with. 3 Twite on the new embankment leading to the new hide along with a reed bunting and later on at least 9 Twite on the fresh marsh. A Cettis Warbler also burst into song for a few moments. 9 Shorelark were seen distantly on the beach at the far east end of the boardwalk after lots patience at 3.15pm! Back along the main bank we saw at 3 pintail, 1 Water Pipit, loads of Golden Plover and a Yellow legged Gull, several little egrets, lots of starlings and 2 Marsh Harriers and usual waders.
Best Wishes Penny:girl:
See pictures on blog.
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Penny Clarke
Well-known member
Hi Paul - I have heard that Chris Packham is opening the new hide on the 4th December - is this correct please?
Best Wishes Penny:girl:
Lightthiscandle
David Bryant
mr.sim
Honourable founding member of the "day late" gang
A nice day out yesterday revealed a pair of Stonechats on Blakeney Freshmarsh, about half a kilometre north of Friary Hills. The American Golden Plover was a little distant, but it stood out rather well anyway.
Only one Grey Phalarope on North Scrape at Cley, but it's my third this Autumn, so I can't complain.
At Titchwell I glimpsed two small passerines as they flew off along the beach; was informed they were Shore Larks, but not the views I was hoping for! Also 6 Twite (which showed much better). 36 Ruff on the freshmarsh.
Only one Grey Phalarope on North Scrape at Cley, but it's my third this Autumn, so I can't complain.
At Titchwell I glimpsed two small passerines as they flew off along the beach; was informed they were Shore Larks, but not the views I was hoping for! Also 6 Twite (which showed much better). 36 Ruff on the freshmarsh.
Lightthiscandle
David Bryant
scary-canary
Canaries forever... and i'm not always scary, some
Mr Sim,
Is the "day late" gang affiliated to the "It was showing five minutes ago" gang?
Chris
Is the "day late" gang affiliated to the "It was showing five minutes ago" gang?
Chris
