Aug 302020
 

A recent 3 day trip to North Norfolk produced 90 species and 9 year ticks. Sea birds were certainly on the move in some very windy conditions.

A number of Bonxie and Arctic Skua were on the move along with a few Manx Shearwater and many, many terns. Several Little Tern were still around. A few young Mediterranean Gull passed by Cley Coastguards along with a good selection of waders, a single Red-throated Diver and Guillemot, plenty of Fulmar and Gannet. I found a Spoonbill on Blakeney Fresh Marsh and a few migrant warblers.

Titchwell produced a few Curlew Sandpiper, 5 Spoonbill, Little Stint, Red Kite, 8 Swift, Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret and 12 other wader species.

Sunset over Blakeney Fresh Marsh
The famous Half-way House along Blakeney Point
Morston Quay looking towards Blakeney Point in the distance
RSPB Titchwell Reserve looking towards Parinder Hide
Titchwell Fresh Marsh and Teal Hide
Mullein (Verbascum)

The past few days I’ve spent local birding. At Staunton Harold Reservoir (29th) I had 7 Yellow-legged Gull and a late juvenile Common Tern. A Common Whitethroat and a single Chiffchaff. Little Egrets reduced to one single bird.

On 30th August only 3 adult Yellow-legged Gull, but an increase in Chiffchaff , with at least 10 birds in with the tit flock.

Chiffchaff at Staunton Harold Reservoir

At Willington DWT Reserve at least 10 Common Tern, a Great White Egret, a Hobby, Common Whitethroat, a calling Redshank, 2 Common Snipe, 6 Chiffchaff and a Cetti’s Warbler.

Great White Egret – rather distant at Willington Gravel Pits
Hobby hunting Dragonflies at Willington Gravel Pits

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