{"id":32479,"date":"2023-02-22T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/?p=32479"},"modified":"2024-08-07T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:51:47","slug":"christmas-in-norfolk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/christmas-in-norfolk\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We spent our Christmas in North Norfolk, such a wonderful place to be at this time of the year. A relaxing few days away and my luck was in, as there were one or two good birds still around to top up the year list.<\/p>\n

A Hume’s Warbler, at Brancaster, put on a good showing. The long staying juvenile Pallid Harrier, at Warham Greens, came into roost in the early afternoon, accompanied by a “Ring-tail” Hen Harrier and a few Marsh Harrier. Eleven Shorelarks were faithful to an area of saltings at Holkham Gap, and with a good mixed bag of waders and wildfowl, some good Christmas fare, it was a superb few days away.<\/p>\n

My year list finished on 235 and my local Patch List at Staunton Harold Reservoir for the year was 107. Highlights at the patch were a Water Rail 23\/1; a Black-necked Grebe 28\/8; a Grey Plover 17\/8 with 2 on 4\/10; 2 Juvenile Black Tern on 17\/8; a Great White Egret on 23\/2; 29 Little Egret on 12\/9 (a site record count); a Black Redstart 26\/7 (a patch tick for me , number 193, and the first since 1976) and a Rock Pipit 4\/10 (1st one since 1991).<\/p>\n

One British tick during 2022 was a stunning Eleonora’s Falcon in Kent during June (522).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hume’s Warbler – Brancaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hume’s Warbler – Brancaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hume’s Warbler – Brancaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Juvenile Pallid Harrier – Warham Greens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Juvenile Pallid Harrier – Warham Greens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Juvenile Pallid Harrier – Warham Greens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shorelark – Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shorelark – Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Teal <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Teal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Teal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wigeon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsh Harrier – Titchwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great White Egret – Titchwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red Kite – Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red Kite – Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red Kite – Holkham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grey Plover – Titchwell <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We spent our Christmas in North Norfolk, such a wonderful place to be at this time of the year. A relaxing few days away and my luck was in, as there were one or two good birds still around to top up the year list. A Hume’s Warbler, at Brancaster, put on a good showing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,725],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-birdsof2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplybirdsandmoths.co.uk\/sbam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}