This last (a ?Black Hawk? downed out of my sight at Kelling) buzzed around, looking menacing for a while.QUOTE]
It's an Apache: they're based at Martlesham....
firstreesjohn;2427792ce[/I said:, a very dark rapacious one.
This last (a ?Black Hawk? downed out of my sight at Kelling) buzzed around, looking menacing for a while.
If you fancy improving your helicopter list, lakenheath fen is good for blackhawks, and I had a couple of pumas over blakeney the other month.
Whitethroats now evident at bowthorpe.
Blackcap building nest next door for 3rd year in a row.
An early fone call (thanks, Ian) got me out of the house in record time- only to find that the male Citrine had flown east. I trudged a km along the clifftop path in quest, with the scant consolation of a male Whinchat, only to have another call, informing me that it was back.
A minute of seeing it at quite a distance, on a fence, and it was off again. It flew over my head, called and went east, pitching down on the path. Distant views and several of us set off in pursuit. Before we’d got anywhere near it, it was back over our heads, calling, and this time disappeared west.
Simon C has much better, digiscoped, pix.
Pic attatched of the Citrine.
Drake Garganey on the freshmarsh at Titchwell today
Simon
This last (a ?Black Hawk? downed out of my sight at Kelling) buzzed around, looking menacing for a while.QUOTE]
It's an Apache: they're based at Martlesham....
A bit of a shock for the good burghers of Martlesham (though would serve them right for living on what was once for me - as a boy - still open heathland with a decent RB shrike population) ... I think you'll find they're from Wattisham, near Hadleigh.
Chris A.
Oooops!
Pic attatched of the Citrine.
Drake Garganey on the freshmarsh at Titchwell today
Simon
Still there: frustratingly close to the A47, but behind the reeds!
Nice pic Simon, did you find this one?
Paul
things that probably fly a lot further from Norfolk than your average Apache... and entirely under their own steam!
Quite true, Nick. The vision and research which has brought to light the annual and arduous journeys of our lovely Cuckoos is most welcome. It is great to know that Lyster is back in Norfolk, having left County on 22nd July last year.
Brilliant news!
Quite true, Nick. The vision and research which has brought to light the annual and arduous journeys of our lovely Cuckoos is most welcome. It is great to know that Lyster is back in Norfolk, having left County on 22nd July last year.
Brilliant news!
Yup - certainly made my day! There's been a Cuckoo on "Clement's Patch" a.k.a the Nunnery Lakes in Thetford since 25 April, calling again this evening. No sign of any wires though, so I don't think there's going to be a miraculous comeback from Clement (last heard from in Cameroon, 25 Feb).