Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
Day 3 of Cracking Birds!!!
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still, Great Grey Shrike, Lapland Buntings x 2 at Burnham Norton!
Hawfinch at Aylmerton.
PALLAS'S WARBLER still by toilet block at Holme Dunes NWT
(does this mean by the public toilets at the end of Beach road does anyone please know or toilets by NWT Firs house?)
Great Grey Shrike in paddock Holme Dunes NWT, Yellow-browed Warbler by toilet block, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 in NWT carpark, Lapland Bunting flew SE, Siberian Chiffchaff in caravan park at Holme.
PALLAS'S WARBLERS x 2 at Holme Dunes NWT
PALLAS'S WARBLER trapped and ringed at Holme NOA.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 4, Short-eared Owls x 3, Velvet Scoters x 3 at Holme.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrests x 3 in garden at Salthouse.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Waxwing, Ring Ouzel at Walsey Hills NOA.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Black Redstart, Firecrest at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Waxwings x 3, Bittern by East Bank, Great Skuas x 6 at Cley NWT.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Jack Snipe, Purple Sandpipers x 2 at Winterton.
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT still, RADDE'S WARBLER still, PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 3 at Wells Woods.
DUSKY WARBLER, PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warbler at East Hills, Wells.
Great Grey Shrike, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Campsite Wood, Lapland Buntings x 2, Richard's Pipit at Stiffkey.
MEGA! ISABELLINE SHRIKE near the 'whirligig', Great Grey Shrike at Stiffkey.
LITTLE BUNTING Probable along coast path opposite Garden Drove, Warham Greens.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Rough-legged Buzzard, Shorelarks x 2, Lapland Bunting, Short-eared Owl, Grey Phalarope, Velvet Scoters x 3 at Titchwell RSPB.
Yellow-browed Warbler west of boardwalk, Great White Egret at Burnham Overy Dunes.
Great Grey Shrike on concrete building on saltmarsh at Thornham and Grey Phalarope at Thornham Point.
Wood Warbler, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 by cross tracks, west end of Holkham Pines & another YBW half a mile west of Lady Ann's Drive.
Shorelark on beach at Holkham.
Spoonbill at Breydon Water.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Muckleburgh Hill.
Siberian Chiffchaff, Lapland Buntings x 2, White-fronted Geese x 7 (flew NE) at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Woodlark at Sheringham.
Short-eared Owls x 2, Great Northern Diver at Weybourne.
PALLAS'S WARBLER at Kelling Water Meadows.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
Loads of migrants in Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgshire, similar to Norfolk, too many to type, but main highlights were:
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL reported, Great Grey Shrike at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire.
RADDE'S WARBLER, Great Grey Shrikes x 2, Yellow-browed Warblers x 6, Black Redstarts x 2, Ring Ouzels x 40, Shorelark, Rough-legged Buzzard, Hen Harrier, Short-eared Owls x 2, Lapland Bunting at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SIBERIAN THRUSH at Scousburgh, Shetland.
MEGA! FORSTER'S TERN, County Dublin, Ireland.
MEGA! SNOWY OWL, Thurso, Scotland.
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
RBA Weekly Round-up 8th-14th October!
By Jon Dunn
http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/WeeklyRoundup2014-41.aspx
Thanks to the RBA team for including my Great White Egret photograph in their review. Also thanks to Brian Egan for my new banner!
http://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/WeeklyRoundup2014-41.aspx
Thanks to the RBA team for including my Great White Egret photograph in their review. Also thanks to Brian Egan for my new banner!
Birdguides Review of the Week 8th-14th October!
http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=4661
Thanks to the Birdguides team for including my Steppe Grey Shrike and Great White Egret photographs in their review.
Thanks to the Birdguides team for including my Steppe Grey Shrike and Great White Egret photographs in their review.
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Holme NWT After Work!
Thousands of birds in Norfolk again today. Just imagine how many more would be found if it was the weekend!!! Goodness knows what's still undiscovered out there! Devastated to be at work this week, absolutely devastated! No time to get to coast before work and by the time I have got through
the traffic at night I end up with half an hour on the coast before
dusk.
Went slightly further this evening and decided to blitz Holme NWT Forestry after hours (REBEL!) Riddled with Goldcrests and Robins in the failing light, Blackbirds and a few Song Thrushes. Managed to flush a fabulous Short-eared Owl at 6.15pm. Also spotted a big Thrush sp. that got away, no doubt someone will find that tomorrow – White's Thrush I expect!
There are far too many hours and days until Saturday when I have a week off – seems to be westerlies next week – not good! If someone can lift my spirits to tell me next week is going to be awesome, please tell me! Just read some very interesting predictions about next week HERE – cheered up no end now!
I can't believe the massive numbers of migrants dropping into our county over the last couple of days and more tomorrow!
105 Ring Ouzels on Blakeney Point, yesterday!!!! That must be a record surely?
Went slightly further this evening and decided to blitz Holme NWT Forestry after hours (REBEL!) Riddled with Goldcrests and Robins in the failing light, Blackbirds and a few Song Thrushes. Managed to flush a fabulous Short-eared Owl at 6.15pm. Also spotted a big Thrush sp. that got away, no doubt someone will find that tomorrow – White's Thrush I expect!
There are far too many hours and days until Saturday when I have a week off – seems to be westerlies next week – not good! If someone can lift my spirits to tell me next week is going to be awesome, please tell me! Just read some very interesting predictions about next week HERE – cheered up no end now!
I can't believe the massive numbers of migrants dropping into our county over the last couple of days and more tomorrow!
105 Ring Ouzels on Blakeney Point, yesterday!!!! That must be a record surely?
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
ANOTHER AWESOME DAY!!!
Yellow-browed Warbler at Cromer.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Walsey Hills NOA.
White Stork at Great Yarmouth.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still with Great Grey Shrike & Red-backed Shrike at Burnham Norton!
Firecrest at Waxham
Eastern Common Tern (possible) at Salthouse.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Bard Hill, Salthouse Heath.
Richard's Pipit, Yellow-browed Warbler at Sowbury Hill, Salthouse.
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL, Long-eared Owl, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Redstart, Lapland Bunting at Campsite Wood, Great Great Shrike at Stiffkey.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Stiffkey Fen.
Ring Ouzel at Norwich.
LITTLE BUNTING east of whirligig at Warham Greens.
Yellow-browed Warbler in copse at end of Garden Drove, Black Redstart at Warham Greens.
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT, RADDE'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 8, Ring Ouzels x 2, Short-eared Owl at Wells Woods.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Slavonian Grebe, Little Stint, Long-tailed Ducks x 5 at Titchwell RSPB.
RADDE'S WARBLER (Gun Hill), Great Grey Shrike, Great White Egret, Ring Ouzels x 2, Lapland Buntings x 4, Yellow-browed Warbler, Short-eared Owl at Burnham Overy Staithe.
Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter x 9, Little Gulls x 29, Great Skuas x 11, Arctic Skuas x 6, Short-eared Owl at Hunstanton.
Short-eared Owl at Cromer.
Black Redstart at Norwich.
Great Grey Shrike at Cley NWT, Grey Phalaropes x 2, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Great Skuas x 45, Arctic Skuas x 7, Long-tailed Ducks x 2, Little Gulls x 800, Short-eared Owl flew past beach carpark, Cley.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Bayfield Hall.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Brancaster Staithe.
Spoonbills, Spotted Redshanks x 3 at Breydon Water.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Great Grey Shrike, Long-eared Owls x 2, Short-eared Owls x 4 at Scolt Head Island NNR
Great Grey Shrike, Richard's Pipit, Shorelark, Yellow-browed Warbler, Lapland Buntings x 2, Short-eared Owls x 2, Long-eared Owl, Redstart, Purple Sandpiper at Blakeney Point.
Ring Ouzel, Woodlark at North Beach, Great Yarmouth.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Angles Lane, Burnham Market.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Siberian Chiffchaff, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Yellow-browed Warblers x 8, Ring Ouzels x 5, Redstarts x 2, Short-eared Owls x 4, Velvet Scoters x 9, Spotted Redshank at Holme Dunes NWT.
Twite x 2 at Thornham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Gorleston-on-Sea.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Firecrest, Redstart, Lapland Buntings x 2, Ring Ouzel, Short-eared Owl at Winterton.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Twite x 2, Short-eared Owl at Happisburgh.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Kelling Heath.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Firecrest, Short-eared Owl at Waxham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines.
RADDE'S WARBLER east of Beach Road at Brancaster.
RADDE'S WARBLER, PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 3 at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Black Redstart at Back Lane, Great Yarmouth.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Ring Ouzels x 3 at Bure Park, Great Yarmouth.
Common Crane at Roydon Common NWT.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Little Gulls x 70 at Horsey.
Long-eared Owl at Beeston Bump, Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Beeston Common, Sheringham.
Short-eared Owls x 4, Red-necked Grebe, Little Gulls x 335, Great Skuas x 39, Arctic Skuas x 2, Manx Shearwaters x 3 at Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Cliff Top Wood, Trimingham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines.
Pied Flycatcher in churchard at Burnham Deepdale.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Lapland Bunting, Ring Ouzels x 2, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owls x 9, Jack Snipe at East Hills, Wells.
Ring Ouzel at Nunnery Lakes NR, Thetford.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
Loads of migrants in Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgshire, similar to Norfolk, too many to type, but main highlights were:
RADDE'S WARBLER, ARCTIC WARBLER at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Great Grey Shrike, Glossy Ibis, Ring Ouzels x 2 at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire.
RADDE'S WARBLER at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
ANOTHER AWESOME DAY!!!
Yellow-browed Warbler at Cromer.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Walsey Hills NOA.
White Stork at Great Yarmouth.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still with Great Grey Shrike & Red-backed Shrike at Burnham Norton!
Firecrest at Waxham
Eastern Common Tern (possible) at Salthouse.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Bard Hill, Salthouse Heath.
Richard's Pipit, Yellow-browed Warbler at Sowbury Hill, Salthouse.
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL, Long-eared Owl, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Redstart, Lapland Bunting at Campsite Wood, Great Great Shrike at Stiffkey.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Stiffkey Fen.
Ring Ouzel at Norwich.
LITTLE BUNTING east of whirligig at Warham Greens.
Yellow-browed Warbler in copse at end of Garden Drove, Black Redstart at Warham Greens.
OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT, RADDE'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 8, Ring Ouzels x 2, Short-eared Owl at Wells Woods.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skua, Slavonian Grebe, Little Stint, Long-tailed Ducks x 5 at Titchwell RSPB.
RADDE'S WARBLER (Gun Hill), Great Grey Shrike, Great White Egret, Ring Ouzels x 2, Lapland Buntings x 4, Yellow-browed Warbler, Short-eared Owl at Burnham Overy Staithe.
Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter x 9, Little Gulls x 29, Great Skuas x 11, Arctic Skuas x 6, Short-eared Owl at Hunstanton.
Short-eared Owl at Cromer.
Black Redstart at Norwich.
Great Grey Shrike at Cley NWT, Grey Phalaropes x 2, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Great Skuas x 45, Arctic Skuas x 7, Long-tailed Ducks x 2, Little Gulls x 800, Short-eared Owl flew past beach carpark, Cley.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Bayfield Hall.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Brancaster Staithe.
Spoonbills, Spotted Redshanks x 3 at Breydon Water.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Great Grey Shrike, Long-eared Owls x 2, Short-eared Owls x 4 at Scolt Head Island NNR
Great Grey Shrike, Richard's Pipit, Shorelark, Yellow-browed Warbler, Lapland Buntings x 2, Short-eared Owls x 2, Long-eared Owl, Redstart, Purple Sandpiper at Blakeney Point.
Ring Ouzel, Woodlark at North Beach, Great Yarmouth.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Angles Lane, Burnham Market.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Siberian Chiffchaff, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Yellow-browed Warblers x 8, Ring Ouzels x 5, Redstarts x 2, Short-eared Owls x 4, Velvet Scoters x 9, Spotted Redshank at Holme Dunes NWT.
Twite x 2 at Thornham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Gorleston-on-Sea.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Firecrest, Redstart, Lapland Buntings x 2, Ring Ouzel, Short-eared Owl at Winterton.
PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 5, Twite x 2, Short-eared Owl at Happisburgh.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Kelling Heath.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Firecrest, Short-eared Owl at Waxham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines.
RADDE'S WARBLER east of Beach Road at Brancaster.
RADDE'S WARBLER, PALLAS'S WARBLER, Yellow-browed Warblers x 3 at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Black Redstart at Back Lane, Great Yarmouth.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Ring Ouzels x 3 at Bure Park, Great Yarmouth.
Common Crane at Roydon Common NWT.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Little Gulls x 70 at Horsey.
Long-eared Owl at Beeston Bump, Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Beeston Common, Sheringham.
Short-eared Owls x 4, Red-necked Grebe, Little Gulls x 335, Great Skuas x 39, Arctic Skuas x 2, Manx Shearwaters x 3 at Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Cliff Top Wood, Trimingham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines.
Pied Flycatcher in churchard at Burnham Deepdale.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 3, Lapland Bunting, Ring Ouzels x 2, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owls x 9, Jack Snipe at East Hills, Wells.
Ring Ouzel at Nunnery Lakes NR, Thetford.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
Loads of migrants in Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgshire, similar to Norfolk, too many to type, but main highlights were:
RADDE'S WARBLER, ARCTIC WARBLER at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Great Grey Shrike, Glossy Ibis, Ring Ouzels x 2 at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire.
RADDE'S WARBLER at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
Monday, 13 October 2014
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL at Warham!!!
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Found and photographed at Garden Drove, Warham by John Furse!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dripping with Birds in Norfolk!!!
"Its all kicked off with stacks of birds" was a text I received at work this afternoon from a birder out in the field!!! So frustrating
to be at work when its like this! I have next week off, I really hope I
havn't got it wrong!!!
Rushed home after work, rushed straight out and drove to the nearest half decent place before it gets dark to Snettisham Coastal Park – got there about 5.40pm. In the pouring rain the place was alive with thrushes: blackbirds, songthrushes, redwings – also robins and hedgesparrows. Couldn't find any with a blue tail though!!! At one point I could see at least 5 robins in one small hawthorn! Several LBJ's zipping across me into cover at dusk. I WANT TOMORROW OFF!!!
Then went to Hunstanton to Tescos and Sainsburys and delivered shopping to my parents, then back to King's Lynn, filled up with diesel and got home at about 8.30pm. Phew! Just having a microwave tea and then need to type up yesterday's birding day – I knew I should have done that last night!
There are tons more birds that are not on the pager yet. Heard about 2 Great Grey Shrikes and several Ring Ouzels at Walsey Hills alone!!!
Rushed home after work, rushed straight out and drove to the nearest half decent place before it gets dark to Snettisham Coastal Park – got there about 5.40pm. In the pouring rain the place was alive with thrushes: blackbirds, songthrushes, redwings – also robins and hedgesparrows. Couldn't find any with a blue tail though!!! At one point I could see at least 5 robins in one small hawthorn! Several LBJ's zipping across me into cover at dusk. I WANT TOMORROW OFF!!!
Then went to Hunstanton to Tescos and Sainsburys and delivered shopping to my parents, then back to King's Lynn, filled up with diesel and got home at about 8.30pm. Phew! Just having a microwave tea and then need to type up yesterday's birding day – I knew I should have done that last night!
There are tons more birds that are not on the pager yet. Heard about 2 Great Grey Shrikes and several Ring Ouzels at Walsey Hills alone!!!
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
WHAT A DAY!!!
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Little Gulls x 10 at Titchwell RSPB.
Great Skuas x 2, Arctic Skuas x 4, Little Gulls x 10 at Gorleston-on-Sea.
Great Grey Shrike flew in off sea, Jack Snipe on Golf Course at Hunstanton.
Sooty Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Great Skuas x 3, Little Gulls x 83, Velvet Scoter at Weybourne.
Spoonbill at Breydon Water.
Pomarine Skua, Great Skua x 10, Arctic Skua, Short-eared Owl at Winterton.
Yellow-browed Warbler (+ another 2 in churchyard), Ring Ouzels x 3, Whinchat, Redstart at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Leach's Petrel, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skuas x 3, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl x 9, Barred Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Ring Ouzel at Horsey.
Black Redstarts x 2 at North Lodge Park, Cromer.
Great Grey Shrike, Siberian Chiffchaff at Walsey Hills NOA.
Great Grey Shrike just west of Sowbury Hill, Salthouse.
Red-backed Shrike 1w still at West Runton.
Grey Phalarope at Cley NWT.
Sabine's Gull, Little Auks x 3, Short-eared Owls x 2, Grey Phalaropes x 2, Black-throated Diver, Sooty Shearwaters x 18, Manx Shearwaters x 20, Little Gulls x 300, Great Skuas x 25, Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter, Puffin at Cley.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Warham Greens.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Campsite Wood and Redstart, Short-eared Owl and Ring Ouzels x 8 at Stiffkey.
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL at Garden Drove, Warham Greens (found by John Furse)
Ring Ouzel at Nunnery Lakes NR, Thetford.
Great Grey Shrikes x 2, Ring Ouzels x 105, Short-eared Owls x 2, Redstarts x 2 at Blakeney Point.
Great Grey Shrike (probable) by recycling bins at Thornham.
Ring Ouzel at Hopton-on-Sea.
Siberian Chiffchaff in trees leading up to cemetery at Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Pomarine Skua, Lapland Bunting, Short-eared Owls x 6, Sooty Shearwater, Velvet Scoters x 4, Ring Ouzels x 15 at Happisburgh.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Sidestrand.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Short-eared Owl, Ring Ouzel, Black Redstart at Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Great Skuas x 5, Little Gulls x 4, Mealy Redpoll at Holme NOA. I can't believe Holme had no other migrants reported from either NWT or NOA, surely they must have more than this!
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrests x 2 at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Sabine's Gull, Leach's Petrel, Pomarine Skua, Sooty Shearwaters x 3, Great Skuas x 15, Long-tailed Ducks x 3, Little Gulls x 19 at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Leach's Petrel at Pakefield, Suffolk.
Plus similar migrants to Norfolk all along the Suffolk coast.
Radde's Warbler, Pallas's Warblers x 2 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Ring Ouzels x 25, Yellow-browed Warbler, Long-tailed Skuas x 2, Sooty Shearwater at Gibraltar Point NNR.
Pomarine Skuas x 15, Great Skuas x 42 at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.
Great Skuas x 11, Little Gulls x 74, Kittiwakes x 173 flew over south over Foul Anchor, north of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT flew north past Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER still at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
WHAT A DAY!!!
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Little Gulls x 10 at Titchwell RSPB.
Great Skuas x 2, Arctic Skuas x 4, Little Gulls x 10 at Gorleston-on-Sea.
Great Grey Shrike flew in off sea, Jack Snipe on Golf Course at Hunstanton.
Sooty Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Great Skuas x 3, Little Gulls x 83, Velvet Scoter at Weybourne.
Spoonbill at Breydon Water.
Pomarine Skua, Great Skua x 10, Arctic Skua, Short-eared Owl at Winterton.
Yellow-browed Warbler (+ another 2 in churchyard), Ring Ouzels x 3, Whinchat, Redstart at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Leach's Petrel, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Sooty Shearwater, Great Skuas x 3, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl x 9, Barred Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Ring Ouzel at Horsey.
Black Redstarts x 2 at North Lodge Park, Cromer.
Great Grey Shrike, Siberian Chiffchaff at Walsey Hills NOA.
Great Grey Shrike just west of Sowbury Hill, Salthouse.
Red-backed Shrike 1w still at West Runton.
Grey Phalarope at Cley NWT.
Sabine's Gull, Little Auks x 3, Short-eared Owls x 2, Grey Phalaropes x 2, Black-throated Diver, Sooty Shearwaters x 18, Manx Shearwaters x 20, Little Gulls x 300, Great Skuas x 25, Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter, Puffin at Cley.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Warham Greens.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Campsite Wood and Redstart, Short-eared Owl and Ring Ouzels x 8 at Stiffkey.
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL at Garden Drove, Warham Greens (found by John Furse)
Ring Ouzel at Nunnery Lakes NR, Thetford.
Great Grey Shrikes x 2, Ring Ouzels x 105, Short-eared Owls x 2, Redstarts x 2 at Blakeney Point.
Great Grey Shrike (probable) by recycling bins at Thornham.
Ring Ouzel at Hopton-on-Sea.
Siberian Chiffchaff in trees leading up to cemetery at Sheringham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Pomarine Skua, Lapland Bunting, Short-eared Owls x 6, Sooty Shearwater, Velvet Scoters x 4, Ring Ouzels x 15 at Happisburgh.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Sidestrand.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest, Short-eared Owl, Ring Ouzel, Black Redstart at Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Great Skuas x 5, Little Gulls x 4, Mealy Redpoll at Holme NOA. I can't believe Holme had no other migrants reported from either NWT or NOA, surely they must have more than this!
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret, Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrests x 2 at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Sabine's Gull, Leach's Petrel, Pomarine Skua, Sooty Shearwaters x 3, Great Skuas x 15, Long-tailed Ducks x 3, Little Gulls x 19 at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
Leach's Petrel at Pakefield, Suffolk.
Plus similar migrants to Norfolk all along the Suffolk coast.
Radde's Warbler, Pallas's Warblers x 2 at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Ring Ouzels x 25, Yellow-browed Warbler, Long-tailed Skuas x 2, Sooty Shearwater at Gibraltar Point NNR.
Pomarine Skuas x 15, Great Skuas x 42 at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.
Great Skuas x 11, Little Gulls x 74, Kittiwakes x 173 flew over south over Foul Anchor, north of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! BRUNNICH'S GUILLEMOT flew north past Flamborough Head, Yorkshire.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER still at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
Sunday, 12 October 2014
STOP PRESS! MEGA! AUDOUIN'S GULL!!!
Audouin's Gull 2nd Winter at Dungeness Point, on beach by fishing boats late afternoon.
Found by Dave Walker.
Found by Dave Walker.
Screen shot of picture via twitter. Here is the LINK
Autumn Migrants – A 'Great' Day!
GREAT WHITE EGRET
Burnham Overy Dunes
Garden Drove, Warham Greens
Arrived at the concrete pad, Garden Drove at 8.30am. It was very cold, but sunny and it was great to be out birding again. A very familiar car was parked here already.... James Mc! This famous track is just so good for birds – I don't really know why it is – maybe its because it has a real mix of trees, bushes and vegetation, its sheltered and with the copse of the end, its 'hot, hot birding'!!!
Along the track, it was alive with birds, including good numbers of Chaffinches – a male Blackcap put in a brief appearance (at the section of the track which zig zags with the fallen ivy covered trees), a male Great Spotted Woodpecker called and landed on a high sycamore branch before flying off south. A tit flock appeared with Long-tailed, Blue and Great Tits and with them was a single Goldcrest. A few Blackbirds scattered as I walked along and also several Robins which I carefully checked, several hedgesparrows and one Chiffchaff! I had just reached the large sycamore tree near the end of the track when I was aware of a presence behind me! Kieran Nixon and friend John had crept up behind me. Together we heard and saw Bramblings high up in the sycamore along with some chaffinches. In the copse at the end a female Blackcap appeared in a hawthorn. I have never seen so many Wrens as I did today along this track, every LBJ that moved, blossomed into a Jenny Wren! James McCallum then joined us. Very unusual to hear the James had not seen as much as we had! I found it most interesting that we had all seen birds at different times – Kieran and John had seen 'loads of thrushes scattering' as they drove up the track, but I had seen none when I drove up a bit earlier. James had seen none of the warblers... as he said, he had probably been too early for them. We chatted briefly and then all split, James went west, Kieran and John went east and I stayed put! I spent a while here watching and trying very hard to find something really good. A couple of Jays flew over as I made my way slowly back along the track. Lots of Blackbirds scattering from the hedges and also equal numbers of Robins. I just caught a glimpse of my first Autumn Redwing which flew up the track and landed momentarily on a dead branch before flying off. Found another male and female Blackcap together. In the puddle at the end of the track by the concrete pad, Robins, Goldfinches and Hedgesparrows were coming down to drink. James caught me up and we saw a Grey Wagtail fly over and also a Common Buzzard being mobbed by corvids. More Jays flew overhead. James left to walk to one of his favourite places. Sat in my deckchair to have lunch – I had no intention of staying here as long as I did – don't where the time disappeared to! I watched a female Blackcap coming down to the puddle to bathe, 2 Meadow Pipits landed on the dead tree with 2 Pied Wagtails and also a Garden Warbler showed briefly in a hawthorn, which was a nice surprise. I drifted off and had forty winks and was woken by a very noisy Robin who was perched only a few yards from my head and looked at me as if to say wake up – it continued to serenade me until I moved! left here at 12.50pm.
Wells Woods
I drove along East Quay to stop and watch the Rose-coloured Starling garden bird feeder – remember that? The feeders were full of House Sparrows, busily feeding, chirping, socialising and bathing in the bath – love to watch these birds! Nothing else more colourful appeared though.
I would have been walking Blakeney Point this afternoon if my ankle had allowed me to, but it's not strong enough to be plunged and twisted into shingle for 10 miles! So I decided that Wells would be a safer place to search for migrants, even though I hate paying to park. Scraped together £3.00 for a 3-hour ticket and set off in search of goodies. I skulked around and covered all areas – crept down into the 'Dell' and pished, squeaked and whistled to find a 'bluetail' – there was quite a few birds in here, mostly Long-tailed, Blue and Great Tits along with a few Goldcrests, a Chiffchaff and a beautiful Treecreeper. Several Jays flying over. I was surprised I didn't see or hear a YBW whilst here. Bumped into a bird touring party who suddenly realised I was the 'lady that has the website' – nice to meet you all and hope you had a fab day's birding. There wasn't much bird action outside of the Dell area and there were no birds at the drinking pool. Very poor all round compared to Garden Drove earlier on.
Wells Lifeboat Station
Re-parked the car closer to the cafe to save time – I had 15 minutes left of my parking ticket. Nipped over the seawall to check out the underwatched scrub and buckthorn next to the lifeboat station. A Blackbird flew off from underneath a buckthorn bush and next to the station itself I flushed a Wheatear! Whilst admiring the amazing view of all the waders on the mud flats between here and East Hills, I noticed there was a massive flock of Golden Plover. This reminded me of something Dawn Balmer was talking about the other day... something about counting Golden Plover.... and I turned round to see Dawn, her husband and daughter walking towards me! When I think about Red-flanked Bluetails they don't appear and walk towards me! Huge numbers of birds here including the huge flock of Golden Plover, same of Oystercatchers, Brent Geese, a Grey Plover, Redshanks, Gulls and a single Avocet. I scurried back to my car before the ticket man got me!
Stopped along the quay for chips, yummy! As I drove along the coast road, I was trying to decide if I had time to bird Burnham Overy Dunes – well at least to try and see the Great White Egret that had popped up on the pager a few times today, having been seen east of the seawall. I guessed the views of this bird would be distant out in the marsh. The sun had gone in and it was dull and grey weather for the rest of the evening.
Burnham Overy Dunes
It was now 4.15pm and was far too late to walk out here really, but I had to give it a bash, afterall I was at work tomorrow, no chance again until next Saturday when I am then on holiday for a week – can't wait! I started to walk down the track and just as I reached the stile I glanced to look along the hedgerow and the big field on my left, when I saw a huge white bird – OMG!!! There was the Great White Egret strolling along the bottom of the hedge towards me!!! I couldn't believe it – best views I have ever had of one of this monster birds! How people can mistake Little Egrets for these I will never know, the size difference is massive! Anyway it carried on walking towards me, searching for food and suddenly it spotted something.... and stabbed into the ground and caught a mole! Awesome to watch this bird – it must have clocked me, as it started to look a bit restless – I had kept still enough and was kneeling by the gate with camera balanced through the bars, but suddenly it flew off to the furthest side of the field. I don't expect I will ever get that lucky with a GWE again! Wow!
GREAT WHITE EGRET
Burnham Overy Dunes
I continued along the seawall to the 'magic' (as Stuart White called them recently) bushes and only found a Chaffinch and a Robin here. Nothing else of note on route and no birds on the pool east of the seawall. So now I had a choice.... either Gun Hill or walk east as far as the recent 'Barred Warbler' scrub. I decided to walk east for a change. Had a look in the hollow where the RBFly was recently, nothing. Got to the scrub where the BW was and again found nothing.... but then got really excited – a LBJ bombed out of a bramble and into another. I walked up to the bramble and kept my eyes fixed – the bird appeared, it was a Robin! Saw a few Grey Partridges on the way back and a Kestrel.
Got back to my car with just enough light to still see. Drove to Ringstead to buy some sacks of sticks for my parent's fire, went to Holme, dropped sticks off and spent a while chatting to parents before returning home. A cracking day for general migrants, even though nothing mega was seen. Bird of the day was most certainly the awesome views of the Great White Egret. A 'Great' Day all round!
MORE PICTURES TO BE ADDED
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Pomarine Skua, Little Gulls x 20, Red-necked Grebes x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 2, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Little Stints x 2 at Titchwell RSPB.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Pomarine Skua, Osprey, Slavonian Grebe, Little Gulls x 2 at Holme Dunes NWT.
Richard's Pipit flew north along dunes at Horsey.
Spoonbill at Breydon Water.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Hawfinch (flew east) at Stiffkey Campsite Wood.
Richard's Pipit at Gun Hill, Burnham Overy Dunes.
Caspian Gulls x 2 on beach by pier at Cromer.
Little Stints x 5, Wood Sandpiper at Hickling Broad NWT.
Red-backed Shrike at West Runton.
PENDULINE TIT heard only, yesterday & 8am today, Jack Snipe at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB.
Jack Snipes x 2 at Kelling Water Meadows.
Firecrest at Holkham Pines.
Great White Egret at Burnham Overy Staithe.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Happisburgh.
Grey Phalarope at Thornham Point.
Osprey at Lenwade.
Pomarine Skua, Little Gulls x 76, Snow Bunting at Horsey.
Lapland Bunting at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Little Gulls x 3 at Old Hunstanton.
Caspian Gull at Sidestrand.
RADDE'S WARBLER (YESTERDAY) at Sea Palling
News of an escaped Californian Quail has surfaced! The bird has been seen and photographed at Holkham. Dave Appleton has some fabulous photos of this bird HERE
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Great White Egrets x 2 at Upware, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! AUDOUIN'S GULL 2w at Dungeness Point.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! SNOWY OWL still at Ben Macdui, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Pomarine Skua, Little Gulls x 20, Red-necked Grebes x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 2, Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Little Stints x 2 at Titchwell RSPB.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, Pomarine Skua, Osprey, Slavonian Grebe, Little Gulls x 2 at Holme Dunes NWT.
Richard's Pipit flew north along dunes at Horsey.
Spoonbill at Breydon Water.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Hawfinch (flew east) at Stiffkey Campsite Wood.
Richard's Pipit at Gun Hill, Burnham Overy Dunes.
Caspian Gulls x 2 on beach by pier at Cromer.
Little Stints x 5, Wood Sandpiper at Hickling Broad NWT.
Red-backed Shrike at West Runton.
PENDULINE TIT heard only, yesterday & 8am today, Jack Snipe at Strumpshaw Fen RSPB.
Jack Snipes x 2 at Kelling Water Meadows.
Firecrest at Holkham Pines.
Great White Egret at Burnham Overy Staithe.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Happisburgh.
Grey Phalarope at Thornham Point.
Osprey at Lenwade.
Pomarine Skua, Little Gulls x 76, Snow Bunting at Horsey.
Lapland Bunting at Gramborough Hill, Salthouse.
Little Gulls x 3 at Old Hunstanton.
Caspian Gull at Sidestrand.
RADDE'S WARBLER (YESTERDAY) at Sea Palling
News of an escaped Californian Quail has surfaced! The bird has been seen and photographed at Holkham. Dave Appleton has some fabulous photos of this bird HERE
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Great White Egrets x 2 at Upware, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! AUDOUIN'S GULL 2w at Dungeness Point.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! SNOWY OWL still at Ben Macdui, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Dentist & The Steppe Grey Shrike Again!
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE
Burnham Norton
I felt really tired all day today and had a job to do anything much. Just worn out from work this week and all my mishaps. I also burnt my thumb badly in the week on boiling water, so with that, the tooth and the ankle, surely that should be it for a while – well I hope so anyway!
Burnham Norton
I spent all afternoon watching, enjoying and photographing the wonderful Steppe Grey Shrike. Someone had put some meal worms down yesterday. which has the brought the bird a lot closer! My photographs are a vast improvement from last week! The shrike had a nice little routine of sitting on a hawthorn bush, flying towards us along the dyke, bounding over the fence, grabbing a meal worm and then perching on a large bramble stem to enjoy the meal worm – this made for some lovely photographs! The shrike would then fly back along the dyke to sit on the hawhthorn bush again. The sun shone and it was a wonderful afternoon. Thousands of Pink-footed Geese flew over. It was nice to bump into Trevor Hannant and wife and also Kit Day here with his monstrous new 600mm lens (made my camera look like a kid's toy!). Eddie turned up and got some fab phone-scoped video. I didn't bother bringing my scope today, concentrated on getting some decent SLR shots. Lots of amusing banter back and forth between Richard Brooks and myself! Basically I was in the way (even though I got here first!), my hair was in the way, and I was too tall – chuckle, chuckle! I had not intended to spend all afternoon here, but that shrike is pretty addictive! I eventually tore myself away, when huge dark clouds loomed above with threatening rain. Heard a Cetti's Warbler near the carpark as I walked back to my car.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE
Burnham Norton
Titchwell RSPB & Choseley Barns.
I started to walk along the Fen Trail, but changed my mind and walked back to the car just in time before the heavens opened! Drove up to Choseley Barns to get a birds's eye view of the lightening and thunder. Dramatic black and white clouds and rain filled skies. Sat in the car and eventually the rain stopped. Walked along the track that runs west – only bird I saw was a Blue Tit. As I turned back I could see a woman with a ginger coloured dog. The dog spotted me and like a bullet out of a gun, charged towards me, yelping and growling like the devil possessed – as it neared, I knew this was going to be scary and just couldn't face this very aggressive dog, so I turned the opposite way and stood still. I decided that if it was going to take a chunk out of me, I would rather it not be my face. As the dog neared, I heard the woman shout 'its ok he won't hurt you'. The dog went past me then back and around me still growling nastily and the woman caught me up and apologised. Now normally I would have got really angry, but I was so tired I couldn't be bothered with all the hassle so I just said 'well its just unlucky that I'm someone who is really scared of dogs'. "He's just a dog that makes alot of noise" she said. Dogs should not be allowed to terrify people like this, its just completely out of order – so fed up with it.
Visited my parent's for a while and talked to father about all the bird news. I felt so sorry for him as he told me that I was the first person he had had a conversation with a while as mother is so deaf she can't hear anything he is saying. This made me feel really sad. Her refusal to do anything about is driving me insane. I have a sore throat after attempting to talk to her. Father did make me laugh though, when I repeated myself twice to mother and he said 'you're wasting your time' and turned to me and gave a little chuckle!!!
I arrived home to hear that the dog had been left alone again and was barking continuously until neighbour returned later on – not as late as it sometimes is though, thank goodness!
MORE PHOTOGRAPHS TO BE ADDED
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Spoonbill, Short-eared Owls x 3 at Breydon Water.
Firecrest, Little Gull, Great Skuas x 11 at Horsey.
Black-throated Divers x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 2, Red-necked Grebes x 2, Velvet Scoter, Spotted Redshank, Little Stints x 2, Firecrest, Yellow-browed Warbler at Titchwell RSPB.
Common Cranes x 2 at Limpenhoe.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Great White Egret at Stiffkey.
Great Skua, Little Stint at Cley NWT.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Walsey Hills NOA.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, + possible Siberian Chiffchaff at west end of Holkham Pines.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Pallid Swift or Common Swift x 2 just west of Bodham.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff (possible) at Holme Dunes NWT.
Great White Egret at Wymondham.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest at Hemsby.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Arctic Warbler at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Pectoral Sandpiper at Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! PECHORA PIPIT at Kergord, Shetland.
MEGA! SNOWY OWL still at Ben Macdui, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Cracking picture of the Scarlet Tanager HERE.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still at Burnham Norton!
Spoonbill, Short-eared Owls x 3 at Breydon Water.
Firecrest, Little Gull, Great Skuas x 11 at Horsey.
Black-throated Divers x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 2, Red-necked Grebes x 2, Velvet Scoter, Spotted Redshank, Little Stints x 2, Firecrest, Yellow-browed Warbler at Titchwell RSPB.
Common Cranes x 2 at Limpenhoe.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Great White Egret at Stiffkey.
Great Skua, Little Stint at Cley NWT.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Walsey Hills NOA.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2, + possible Siberian Chiffchaff at west end of Holkham Pines.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Great Yarmouth Cemetery.
Pallid Swift or Common Swift x 2 just west of Bodham.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Siberian Chiffchaff (possible) at Holme Dunes NWT.
Great White Egret at Wymondham.
Yellow-browed Warbler, Firecrest at Hemsby.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Arctic Warbler at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Pectoral Sandpiper at Burwell Fen, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! EASTERN BONELLI'S WARBLER at Scalloway, Shetland.
MEGA! PECHORA PIPIT at Kergord, Shetland.
MEGA! SNOWY OWL still at Ben Macdui, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Cracking picture of the Scarlet Tanager HERE.
Friday, 10 October 2014
The Weekend!
I have had mild toothache all week, part of a filling fell out a few
weeks ago and I made an appointment for the end of the month, but this
evening the 'mild' has turned to severe, so need to get to my dentist, which doesn't open until 9am and will just have to hope that they will see me! So that's my morning's birding gone down the pan!
Not working on Sunday, as not fit enough to work as a nursing auxilliary with my ankle yet. So I have all weekend to go birding, after I have left the dentist that is!
WEATHER
Saturday: South West winds. Sunny spells and showers through the day although mainly dry through the
morning. Light winds with a risk of localised slow-moving heavy and
thundery downpours during the afternoon.Sunday: West, then South West, then north east wind around midday for the rest of the afternoon. Mainly dry with sunny spells after a chilly start.
High Tides – King's Lynn Docks – note, very high tides this weekend!
Saturday: 8.47am and 21.12pm
Sunday: 9.29am and 21.49pm.
High Tides – Wells Bar – note, very high tides this weekend!
Saturday: 8.43am and 21.08pmSunday: 9.25am and 21.43pm.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
LOOKING HOT FOR NEXT WEEK!!!
BUT NOT FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE WORKING!
BUT NOT FOR THOSE OF US THAT ARE WORKING!
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still for sixth day at Burnham Norton!
Common Cranes x 2 flew over Burnham Norton.
Twite x 4 at Thornham Harbour.
Black Redstart, Great Skua, Arctic Skua, Whinchats x 2, Little Stints x 3 at Cley NWT.
Red-necked Grebes x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 3, Spotted Redshank, Little Stints x 2 at Titchwell RSPB.
Common Cranes x 2 flew west over Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines, Osprey over lake at Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Wells Woods.
Firecrest at North Dunes, Winterton.
Spoonbill at Rush Hill Scrape, Hickling Broad NWT.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Richard's Pipit at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire.
Glossy Ibis at Wicken Fen NT, Cambridgeshire.
Great White Egret at Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! FEA'S PETREL County Cork, Ireland.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still for sixth day at Burnham Norton!
Common Cranes x 2 flew over Burnham Norton.
Twite x 4 at Thornham Harbour.
Black Redstart, Great Skua, Arctic Skua, Whinchats x 2, Little Stints x 3 at Cley NWT.
Red-necked Grebes x 2, Slavonian Grebes x 3, Spotted Redshank, Little Stints x 2 at Titchwell RSPB.
Common Cranes x 2 flew west over Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warbler at Holkham Pines, Osprey over lake at Holkham.
Yellow-browed Warblers x 2 at Wells Woods.
Firecrest at North Dunes, Winterton.
Spoonbill at Rush Hill Scrape, Hickling Broad NWT.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE, Great White Egret at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Grey Phalarope at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Richard's Pipit at Gibraltar Point NNR, Lincolnshire.
Glossy Ibis at Wicken Fen NT, Cambridgeshire.
Great White Egret at Little Paxton, Cambridgeshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! FEA'S PETREL County Cork, Ireland.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
NORFOLK BIRD NEWS & MEGAS!
Norfolk Bird News via 'Rare Bird Alert'
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still for fifth day at Burnham Norton!
Yellow-browed Warbler at Horsey.
Long-tailed Skua, Great Skuas x 5, Firecrest at North Dunes, Winterton.
Great White Egret flew south over Great Yarmouth.
Black Redstart at Cley.
Little Stint at Cley NWT.
Great White Egret at Hickling Broad NWT.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Great Skuas x 12 at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Glossy Ibis, Pomarine Skua at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SCARLET TANAGER for fourth day on Barra, Outer Hebrides. More photos and further discussion on this bird HERE.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! BLYTH'S PIPIT, St Mary's, Scilly Isles.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! GREAT SNIPE trapped & ringed near Llandrindod Wells, Powys, South Wales.
STEPPE GREY SHRIKE still for fifth day at Burnham Norton!
Yellow-browed Warbler at Horsey.
Long-tailed Skua, Great Skuas x 5, Firecrest at North Dunes, Winterton.
Great White Egret flew south over Great Yarmouth.
Black Redstart at Cley.
Little Stint at Cley NWT.
Great White Egret at Hickling Broad NWT.
Suffolk, Cambs, South Lincs Main News & More!
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE at Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
Red-backed Shrike just north of Ness Point at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Grey Phalarope, Pomarine Skuas x 2, Great Skuas x 12 at Freiston Shore RSPB, Lincolnshire.
Glossy Ibis, Pomarine Skua at Frampton Marsh RSPB, Lincolnshire.
MEGA NEWS!
MEGA! SCARLET TANAGER for fourth day on Barra, Outer Hebrides. More photos and further discussion on this bird HERE.
MEGA! SOLITARY SANDPIPER still, County Wexford, Ireland.
MEGA! BLYTH'S PIPIT, St Mary's, Scilly Isles.
MEGA! LITTLE CRAKE still, Minsmere RSPB, Suffolk.
MEGA! GREAT SNIPE trapped & ringed near Llandrindod Wells, Powys, South Wales.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
East Winds in Norfolk Next Week = Hot Birding!
If you've booked a holiday in Norfolk next week, you have struck gold! I have the following week off, so just hope next week's easterlies continuing into MY holiday week!!!
From Monday 13th October onwards!
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/cley_next_sea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2652856
From Monday 13th October onwards!
http://www.xcweather.co.uk/forecast/cley_next_sea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2652856
SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT MASTERPIECE!
Photographer Rebecca Nason has just published the most stunning photograph of this bird. I see tons of brilliant bird pictures published daily as we all do, but this one is a prize winner. I was startled when I first saw this picture... the light, colour, composition, low angle, you could almost kiss this bird! I'd be crying if I got this shot. I'd be crying if I saw a Siberian Rubythroat!!! One day, one day...... I'm going to search Norfolk very very hard this weekend to find one! My dodgy ankle won't allow me to walk to BP or EH, but there are other places to search!
Here is the link to the picture on Facebook and on RBA.
Here is the link to the picture on Facebook and on RBA.
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