Day's holiday and decided to go to Cley - have not been birding up this end of the coast for ages.
Beautiful sunny day until rain at 3.30pm.
Tawny Owl calling in the wood by Little Thornage Ford.
Walsey Hills - my goodness the landscape has certainly changed!!!! I like the new steps, but I don't like the stripped hillside!!!! it looks very barren. Cettis Warbler and 2 Chiffchaffs singing here, but not alot else apart from hedge sparrows and chaffinches by the feeders. The dug out pond that was created last year still remains waterless. Toads mating on the bottom path. No sign of any Adders yet.
Was going to walk the East Bank, but changed my mind and instead parked at Coastguards where I had a chat with local birders and then walked up to North Hide - several meadow pipits flitting about. Not too much from the hide apart from avocet, shoveler, gadwall, redshank, few brents etc.
Whilst photographing a turnstone by the 'seawatching' shelter back at Coastguards 'Dave' (with black labrador) shouted across 'can you ID that Penny?' to which I replied with a very unlady-like V-sign. Whilst Dave and a couple of other birders were discussing Walsey Hills a Wheatear flew over the ridge by the Blakeney Point information board.
Drove to the NWT centre to have a look round and had a very welcome reception from Pat which was very sweet. Bought a cheese scone and sat in the car to eat it along with cup of tea and then 40 winks! Went back to the centre to buy chocolate - oh dear diet slipped again!!! Raining now.
Friary Hills - felt very tired now, could not be bothered to get out of the car, dull, rainy weather - did some car birding and watched several goldfinches and very bright greenfinches flitting about in the hawthorns. Josh had a quick chat with me before heading off towards Friary Hills - no doubt he saw something exciting, which will serve me right for being lazy!
Had chips at Wells - diet blown now so might as well finish the day off with more high calerie food! Masses of Brent Geese flew into the channel - never seen so many!
Just after the Mill at Burnham Over Staithe I watched 3 Marsh Harriers together in the semi dusk.
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Hi Penny, nice to see you getting out and about again, sorry I missed you at Cley, I WILL come and say hello if I ever see you out and about anywhere. We went up to Kelling Heath to look for adders but didn't see any there either but it was a lovely day, lots of lizards and lots of ladybirds as well, nice to see spring coming...(I think!). I'm still debating on whether Walsey Hills is a lost cause yet, hopefully it'll all grow back, and presumably they know what they're doing. Oh dear, the diet gone again, never mind, summer's on it's way and we'll soon be back into the lettuce etc....Best wishes, Sue G
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ReplyDeleteDave the dog is most certainly still about!!!
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