NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!

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Blyth's Reed Warbler, Yellow-browed Warblers x 7, Ring Ouzel, Snow Buntings x 2, Lapland Buntings x 3, Spotted Redshank, Lesser Whitethroat (possibly of eastern form) at Holme NOA

Siberian Chiffchaff along River Hun, Pied Flycatcher in churcyard at Holme

Pied Flycatchers x 2 between Old Hunstanton and Holme

Black-throated Divers x 2 at Hunstanton Cliffs

Arctic Warbler, Olive-backed Pipit briefly, Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Pied Flycatchers x 2, Hawfinches x 2, Red-backed Shrike 1w still, Lapland Bunting at Wells Woods

Short-eared Owl at North Point Pools, Wells

Pale-bellied Brent Goose in channel, Little Gull, Great White Egret at East Quay, Wells

Radde's Warbler, Barred Warbler, Lapland Buntings x 3, Yellow-browed Warbler, Ring Ouzels x 3, Short-eared Owls x 2, Hen Harrier, *Barred Warbler (*between Garden Drove and East Hills) at East Hills, Wells

Olive-backed Pipit, Yellow-browed Warbler at Garden Drove, Lapland Bunting at Warham Greens

Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Pied Flycatcher at Campsite Wood, Stiffkey

Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Lapland Buntings x 2, Lesser Whitethroats x 2 (possibly of an eastern form) between Wells and Stiffkey

Red-breasted Flycatcher male, Wryneck, Hawfinches x 3, Short-eared Owl, Shorelark at Coastwatch, Happisburgh

Great Snipe (probable) flushed and flew over saltmarsh, Olive-backed Pipit reported flew over early evening, Barred Warbler, Lapland Buntings x 2, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Short-eared Owl at Burnham Overy Dunes

Grey Phalarope at Salthouse

Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Pied Flycatcher, Ring Ouzel at Salthouse Heath

Great White Egret at Hickling Broad NWT

Richard's Pipit, Long-eared Owl at golf course, Yellow-browed Warbler, Black Redstarts x 4, Ring Ouzels x 2 at Brancaster

Yellow-browed Warbler, Curlew Sandpipers x 3, Short-eared Owl at Snettisham RSPB

Grey Phalarope, Short-eared Owl, Black-throated Diver, Little Gulls x 3 flew past beach car park, Hawfinch at Church Lane, Cley

Short-eared Owls x 2, Caspian Gull, Spotted Redshank at Cley NWT

Yellow-browed Warbler, Caspian Gull at Titchwell RSPB

Red-breasted Flycatcher at Gypsy Lane, Titchwell

Radde's Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatchers x 2, Richard's Pipit, Lapland Buntings x 3, Little Stints x 2 at Blakeney Point

Short-eared Owl at West Runton

Yellow-browed Warbler in The Walks at King's Lynn

Radde's Warbler, Olive-backed Pipit flew over Washington Hide, Yellow-browed Warblers x 4, Hawfinch at Holkham Pines

Cattle Egrets x 8 at Holkham Freshmarsh

Yellow-browed Warbler, Lapland Buntings x 6, Snow Buntings x 2 at Holkham Gap

Yellow-browed Warbler at Caister Road Cemetery, Hawfinches x 3 in cemetery, Yellow-browed Warbler in St Nicholas' Churchyard, Great Yarmouth

Richard's Pipit (probable) flew in off sea at Caister-on-Sea

Short-eared Owl at Eccles-on-Sea

Radde's Warbler at South Dunes, Red-breasted Flycatcher at North Dunes, Short-eared Owls x 2, Yellow-browed Warbler at Winterton

Yellow-browed Warbler at Walsey Hills NOA

Short-eared Owl at Beeston Bump, Richard's Pipit at Sheringham

Hawfinches x 2, Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting at Walcott

Siberian Chiffchaff, Pied Flycatcher near lighthouse at Cromer

Hawfinches x 2, Ring Ouzel, Short-eared Owl, Great White Egret at Horsey

Lesser Whitethroat (possibly of an eastern form), Lapland Bunting, Ring Ouzel at Thornham Point

Glossy Ibis at Martham Ferry

Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 west of church at Sedgeford

Pied Flycatcher, Great White Egrets x 4 at Burnham Norton

Scaup at Weybourne

Great White Egret at Welney WWT

Yellow-browed Warbler in garden, Great White Egret at Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe

Lesser Whitethroat (possibly of an eastern form), Purple Sandpiper, Arctic Tern at Kelling Water Meadows

Hawfinch at Buckenham Marshes RSPB

Hawfinch flew over Scolt Head Island NNR

 

I can't believe how long today's bird news has taken to type up, almost unprecedented!!!

MEGA NEWS

PALE-LEGGED LEAF WARBLER

Probable, Prior's Park, Tynemouth, Northumberland

TENNESSEE WARBLER

In garden at Burravoe, Yell, Shetland

LANCEOLATED WARBLER

Sumburgh Head, Shetland

PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER

In garden at Skaw, Whalsay, Shetland

LANCEOLATED WARBLER

Funzie, Isle of Fetlar, Shetland

EYEBROWED THRUSH

North Ronaldsay, Orkney

SIBERIAN THRUSH

ENE of Crail at Kilminning, Fife, Scotland

GREAT SNIPE

Landguard Nature Reserve, Suffolk

GREAT SNIPE

Probable, flushed at Burnham Overy Dunes, Norfolk

MASKED SHRIKE

Hartlepool Headland, Cleveland

NORTHERN HARRIER

Barrys Head, County Cork, Ireland

UPLAND SANDPIPER

Inishbofin, County Galway, Ireland

BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS

At sea off Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland

BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS

Flew past Brandon Head, County Kerry, Ireland