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Friday 16 September 2011

Fea's Petrel at Sheringham!!!

Seen at 6.53am by Kevin Shepherd, James McCallum, Phil Vines, Giles Dunmore and only a couple of others!

Sadly I have been standing at Cley Coastguards since 6.35am to 10.35am. Obviously gutted I did not go to Sheringham now!!!

Balearic Shearwater at 7.30am going east (RM). Sooty Shearwater at 9.14am going west. 24 Bonxies, 9 Manx Shearwaters, 20 Red throated Divers, tons and tons of Gannets. Pom skua west at 9.23am. 1 Guillemot west, 1 Razorbill, 1 Arxtic Skua, 16 Common Scoter, 2 more Sooty Shearwaters at 9.33am.


BLAKENEY POINT 12.30pm to 8pm

4 Little Egrets, 1 Curlew, 4 Wheatears, 1 Stonechat, 1 Male Redstart, 1 Greenshank. A continuous stream of gannets going east.

Plantation - 3.45pm: 1 Pied Flycatcher (got a fairly good shot), 1 Garden Warbler eating a pussmoth caterpillar. Common Redstart x 2 at 4.30pm.

Lupins - 5pm: 3 Redstarts, 2 Wheatears, 1 Whinchat, starling and linnets.

Long Hills - 6.28pm: Wheatear

The Hood - Wheatear, Meadow Pipit and 1 Whimbrel.

Got back to the carpark at 8pm!!!

Other news: a short eared owl and a black tern from Coastguards in the evening and also a Basking Shark at lunch time east of Coastguards!!!!

PICTURES TO BE ADDED

1 comment:

  1. You must have been just behind us Penny, we were at the Plantation until about 2pm. Didn't see much at all, just one Ring Ouzel, two Whinchats, a couple of Wheatears and about 15 Grey Partridges, it was dead as anything up till then. Pays to go a bit later obviously. We did however have a nice little tour of Halfway House, courtesy of a friend who's staying there right now. Now I've got aching hip bones after that long walk back....

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