Late afternoon wander out to Gun Hill Dunes. Always great to see the Spoonbills & Great, Cattle and Little Egrets busily travelling back and forth to Holkham. A variety of Orchids & Dark Green Fritillary in one of my favourite Norfolk locations.
June 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Late afternoon wander out to Gun Hill Dunes. Always great to see the Spoonbills & Great, Cattle and Little Egrets busily travelling back and forth to Holkham. A variety of Orchids & Dark Green Fritillary in one of my favourite Norfolk locations.
Home from an excellent trip to North Wales. Highlights finding Black Kite over Holyhead Mountain. I guess strictly relocated, as likely the bird on Bardsey Island the previous day. Hopefully of more reliable origin than some of the birds this way this spring. Black Grouse and Hen Harrier.......
May 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Home from an excellent trip to North Wales. Highlights finding Black Kite over Holyhead Mountain. I guess strictly relocated, as likely the bird on Bardsey Island the previous day. Hopefully of more reliable origin than some of the birds this way this spring. Black Grouse and Hen Harrier.......
When sometimes there is only two birds in total on the pool, two new bird species in a week is quite notable. A pair of Gadwall at dawn before flying towards the Wensum Valley brings the PCP5 total to 87. Ducks quite under represented so far so power to add but not for long as the pool is drying.
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
When sometimes there is only two birds in total on the pool, two new bird species in a week is quite notable. A pair of Gadwall at dawn before flying towards the Wensum Valley brings the PCP5 total to 87. Ducks quite under represented so far so power to add but not for long as the pool is drying.
Patch Gold this morning with a singing Sedge Warbler - my 86th species for Pollution Control Point 5. The only water in walking distance during the pandemic and has become a slightly quirky obsession but has yielded birds like Wood Sand, Whimbrel, Knot, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit, Whinchat and Hawfinch
April 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Patch Gold this morning with a singing Sedge Warbler - my 86th species for Pollution Control Point 5. The only water in walking distance during the pandemic and has become a slightly quirky obsession but has yielded birds like Wood Sand, Whimbrel, Knot, Jack Snipe, Water Pipit, Whinchat and Hawfinch
An early spring visit to the Pool of Dreams🤣. A routine visit. Several male Reed Buntings courting a mate, Yellowhammer and Skylark singing. Moorhen and a few Snipe. A Brambling over.
What might this spring's mega be - Sedge Warbler? It's all relative, its a bypass pollution control pond after all.
What might this spring's mega be - Sedge Warbler? It's all relative, its a bypass pollution control pond after all.
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
An early spring visit to the Pool of Dreams🤣. A routine visit. Several male Reed Buntings courting a mate, Yellowhammer and Skylark singing. Moorhen and a few Snipe. A Brambling over.
What might this spring's mega be - Sedge Warbler? It's all relative, its a bypass pollution control pond after all.
What might this spring's mega be - Sedge Warbler? It's all relative, its a bypass pollution control pond after all.
A day in the Broads. St Benets Abbey 10:00-11:30. Male Hen Harrier (sparring with a young Peregrine for a while). 6 Cattle Egret. 24 Whooper Swans & 4 Cranes over.
28 Crane just west of Sea Palling from concrete pad/muckheap on Hickling Road over lunch.
#norfolkbirding
28 Crane just west of Sea Palling from concrete pad/muckheap on Hickling Road over lunch.
#norfolkbirding
January 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A day in the Broads. St Benets Abbey 10:00-11:30. Male Hen Harrier (sparring with a young Peregrine for a while). 6 Cattle Egret. 24 Whooper Swans & 4 Cranes over.
28 Crane just west of Sea Palling from concrete pad/muckheap on Hickling Road over lunch.
#norfolkbirding
28 Crane just west of Sea Palling from concrete pad/muckheap on Hickling Road over lunch.
#norfolkbirding
Started the year at Old Hunstanton in the northwest of Norfolk attempting to get beyond the band of rain. Glaucous Gull loyal to the Seal carcass on the shingle ridge. 6 Shorelark at the same spot. 4 Cattle Egret with cattle just east of Old Hunstanton from the coast road. #norfolkbirding
January 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Started the year at Old Hunstanton in the northwest of Norfolk attempting to get beyond the band of rain. Glaucous Gull loyal to the Seal carcass on the shingle ridge. 6 Shorelark at the same spot. 4 Cattle Egret with cattle just east of Old Hunstanton from the coast road. #norfolkbirding
Distracted from the birds this week but some rare sightings on the patch this week. One even making the garden list! Aurora on Thursday night and Comet C/2023 A3 this evening.
October 14, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Distracted from the birds this week but some rare sightings on the patch this week. One even making the garden list! Aurora on Thursday night and Comet C/2023 A3 this evening.
An obliging Hoopoe at North Walsham today (You get the impression it knows it's a local celebrity). Richards Pipit Happisburgh this afternoon and what appeared to be a dark juvenile Honey Buzzard from the Happisburgh lighthouse 14:30-14:50 before it headed back south. #NORFOLKBIRDING
October 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
An obliging Hoopoe at North Walsham today (You get the impression it knows it's a local celebrity). Richards Pipit Happisburgh this afternoon and what appeared to be a dark juvenile Honey Buzzard from the Happisburgh lighthouse 14:30-14:50 before it headed back south. #NORFOLKBIRDING
Back from a family break to Bergheim in the Alsace and Europa Park. Not a Birding trip but Nutcracker and Crag Martin nice to see as we did the tourist trail. Lots of birding potential though.
October 3, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Back from a family break to Bergheim in the Alsace and Europa Park. Not a Birding trip but Nutcracker and Crag Martin nice to see as we did the tourist trail. Lots of birding potential though.