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Saturday 25 June 2011

Heavy Rain all Morning!!!

Lapwing, Redwell Marsh NOA.


Wasn't well yesterday, but feel a bit better today, especially as no alarm went off!

Needed some fresh air but didn't get out until late afternoon. Arrived Redwell Marsh Hide at Holme. Apart from black-headed gulls this was nothing else really of note. Carried on to NWT Firs house and bought a Stem ginger ice-cream. A Honey Buzzard was seen, I noted on the sightings list, by the man working there (don't know his name). Bumped into M.G. and Steve B. a long way from home! Walked up to the observatory - very quiet, but did see a sparrowhawk zoom through chasing something, but couldn't see what it was!

Titchwell RSPB - no sign of Temminck's Stint. Two other birders also very disappointed when they couldn't relocate the stint. 2 Spotted Redshanks, tons of black-tailed godwits, avocets, 2 little gulls, redshanks, shelducks with young, juv. pied wagtails, 2 little ringed plovers, flocks of starlings landing to bathe momentarily before continuing their journey, 1 common tern, 4 green sandpipers, little egrets, 3 cormorants, 3 marsh harriers, 1 dunlin and lapwings.

Photographed a privet hawk moth which father caught in his moth trap this morning.

On arrival back home I could clearly hear the "Festival Too" fireworks going off from my house!

Juv. Black headed Gull, Redwell Marsh NOA.


Black headed Gull and juv., Redwell Marsh NOA.


Avocet, Redwell Marsh NOA.


Lapwing, Redwell Marsh NOA.


Little Ringed Plover, Titchwell RSPB.


Pied Wagtail, Titchwell RSPB.


juv. Shelduck, Titchwell RSPB.




Privet Hawkmoth, Holme-next-Sea.

3 comments:

  1. Penny, sorry to hear you've not been well.
    Sometimes a good lie-in works wonders!!

    Take caer

    Malc
    x

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  2. Better still take care!!

    DOH!!

    My excuse is I'm using a laptop PC, and we know what Microsoft products are like eh!!!!!

    Bad workmen blame their tools, MAC users blame Bill Gates!!

    LOL

    Malc
    xx

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  3. Hi Malc!

    Thanks - lie in, did do the trick.

    It MUST have been the PC of course, how could a Mac possibly make a mistake!!!

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