john miller
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Dave
This is obviously another of your juvenile attempts to have a personal go at me, but I do not get it. Can you explain.
John
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Norfolk birding (4 Viewers)
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Dave
This is obviously another of your juvenile attempts to have a personal go at me, but I do not get it. Can you explain.
John
I gathered that, Paul - hence the smiley!! |=)|
But you've got to admit it's a pretty good impression of a tennis ball!
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David Norgate
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I seem to have a habit of bringing people's paranoia to the fore at the moment!
Nothing personal, l was just saddened at the idea that this might have been done to 'see if anyone noticed'. Don't you agree that would be juvenile?
David Norgate
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In a sense that would just be another example of a hoax, would it not?
Mark Batten
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Very popular at the moment.
David Norgate
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A Red Kite cruised SW over The Norfolk Golf and Country Club nr Reymerston late morning, possibly the 7th (if I am allowed to mention a number without seemingly boastful) bird I have seen over the last week. I am obviously fortunate where I tend to bird, but are others seeing a marked increase?
I remember saying to a friend a couple of year back that I would expect to see Red Kite on a good day in Feb and March, to which to reply was that the best 'passage' time was into April (referring to continental birds), where these early year movements seem to be realated to local or national birds (although no tags have been noted on the birds I have seen) and, yes, we did see a Red Kite that day.
This is possibly too obvious to post about as numbers in Norfolk are (?) bound to increase, but I find it interesting to note the change as it happens (I would post a picture, but there would be no telling where it had been taken).
I remember saying to a friend a couple of year back that I would expect to see Red Kite on a good day in Feb and March, to which to reply was that the best 'passage' time was into April (referring to continental birds), where these early year movements seem to be realated to local or national birds (although no tags have been noted on the birds I have seen) and, yes, we did see a Red Kite that day.
This is possibly too obvious to post about as numbers in Norfolk are (?) bound to increase, but I find it interesting to note the change as it happens (I would post a picture, but there would be no telling where it had been taken).
David Norgate
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Where's that 'like' button ... :t:
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Mark Batten
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Recall that a pair of red kites that bred in suffolk were of German origin. Lots of good habitat and would expect kites to do well. I would expect most birds to come from the expanding oxfordshire/northants populations?
Nice pic of the glossy ibis in flight. If I'm able to I'll try nip down avian before the week is out to catch up with em .
Shaky
Matthebirder
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Thank you, had a look around last Saturday. May have another go if weather is good again at weekend. They were very sparse at Lyndford, only saw 2 birds.
Matthew
Andy Musgrove
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Have seen this (or very similar) individual here at Strumpshaw before; in fact, checking my BirdTrack records now, I see it was on 11/4/2010 and 22/04/2011. Surely must the same beast - I agree, it certainly makes you take a second look!
Andy
Connor Rand
Norwich resident, Holme devotee
Hi Dave,
I posed the question 3 years ago, possibly a day involving the bird you refer to http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=134773
Regards,
Lightthiscandle
David Bryant
David Norgate
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Thanks Connor,
Interesting to note the trend over the last few years. Heard another report of three together from a different nearby (relatively) site. Great to see them increasing!
Added to 20+ Common Buzzrads and other raptors, the bright weather has certainly lead to excellent raptor watching (I managed 11 species last week)
David Norgate
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Thanks for the interesting update. There haven't been any reports on the pager, so I wondered if they were still around. Having said that I looked for a good few hours on Sunday to no avail and they were obviously still there!
dave higgins
Member
A friend who lives near Reymerston told me he had seen two Red Kite in the area in Nov 2011 and has seen one bird regularly since, the last date being 27Feb.
Nick Moran
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Hi Connor / all
I guess it is a little longer than 3 years since the question of the origin / timing of Red Kites in E Anglia has been a topic of conversation but well done for raising it here.
I saw an untagged Red Kite (dare I say KT?!) over the Scrape at Minsmere whilst volunteering there on 23/03/1996. At that time, the feeling was that any untagged birds were probably immigrants, particularly in places so far from any of the release sites back then. A few more individuals (and a Black Kite) were reported up the coast at Benacre at the same time, so the consensus was that these birds were part of an early-spring influx from the Continent.
I didn't see any kites in Norfolk/Suffolk whilst living at Stowmarket 2000-2002 but since returning to live in Breckland in 2009, my BirdTrack account reveals records on these dates:
Thetford 04/03/2009 (which I jammed during the outdoor part of my interview at BTO that day, sparking a mini-twitch from the office!)
Thetford 24/05/2010
Thetford 25/05/2010
Thetford 11/03/2011
Thetford 25/04/2011
Stiffkey Fen 19/08/2011
Titchwell Marsh 19/08/2011 (presumably same bird drifting along the coast)
There have already been at least 4 records in Breckland in 2012, and a few more from adjacent areas of west Suffolk. I'm sure the vast majority of the reintroduced birds are untagged these days (including those breeding in/near East Anglia), and probably have been for several years, so I would think most, if not all, recent Breckland records relate to birds from the reintroduced population 'on the wander' in spring.
It may be that birds are more sedentary during incubation / provisioning, and perhaps over the mid-winter period too, though obviously it would need a lot more than a few people's records to test this hypothesis...
Cheers
Nick
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Swans
The swans in your two photographs (although somewhat distant and thus difficult to check or have turned away from the camera) seem to be Bewick's rather than Whoopers - reduced yellow on bill and shortish necks. There has been a large passage of Bewick's through Breydon & Horsey/Winterton in the last week - just under 600 birds in total. There has been a semi-resident group of 8 Whoopers by the A47 and some of the Ludham Whoopers may still be present but the peak there was only 39 in early February.
H
The swans in your two photographs (although somewhat distant and thus difficult to check or have turned away from the camera) seem to be Bewick's rather than Whoopers - reduced yellow on bill and shortish necks. There has been a large passage of Bewick's through Breydon & Horsey/Winterton in the last week - just under 600 birds in total. There has been a semi-resident group of 8 Whoopers by the A47 and some of the Ludham Whoopers may still be present but the peak there was only 39 in early February.
H
