Thursday 09 April 2020
1 Swallow (On wires by the green.My first of the year.) [Michael Harcup]
3 Wheatear,
2 Ring Ouzel (Male and female together in field on South edge of Freshes @10.30), 1 Sedge Warbler [Richard Burton]
1 Bittern (booming at 05.45, unseen.), 1 Great White Egret, 1 Spoonbill (west), 1 Red Kite, 1 Marsh Harrier (skydancing), 2 Little Ringed Plover (on Serpentine), 3 Sandwich Tern (west), 2 Sedge Warbler [Steve Gantlett]
2 Cetti's Warbler, 4 Blackcap, 7 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Warbler [Steve Gantlett]
Wednesday 08 April 2020
4 Oystercatcher (displaying over Hollow Lane at 07:15), 1 Swallow (our first for the year on an aerial in N Street, though someone later told us it was there yesterday.), 1 Willow Warbler (heard and seen in bit of woodland at corner of Morston Rd and the Wiveton Rd.) [David & Pat Wileman]
2 Grey Partridge, 2 Great White Egret (Freshes ), 1 Red Kite, 400 Knot (Harbour Bar), 10 Bar-tailed Godwit ((120 seen on incoming tide on 6th April.) ), 1 Tawny Owl, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch, 1 Bullfinch (Male) [Richard Burton]
Tuesday 07 April 2020
1 Wigeon (A solitary individual near the south gate where a few days ago there were over 30),
1 Great White Egret (Still along the Blakeney Freshes main drain), 8 Lapwing (A number of pairs holding territory on the Freshes ), 15 Curlew (Feeding in the Freshes fields. The pools are drying up during this rather dry spell, but still holding a few Avocet, Teal and Shelduck and Grey Heron, while there are two pairs of Mute Swan in the ditches), 1 Cetti's Warbler (Only one singing individual noted towards east end of the Friary Hills track),
1 Blackcap (In Friary Hills marsh edge hedge along with one of two Chiffchaff present . APOLOGIES to David Fell - my Blackcap picture at Blakeney got into the wrong entry!) [Tom Green]
1 Stonechat (Female), 6 Wheatear (At least six in the same field as the Ring Ouzels.), 2 Ring Ouzel (West Runton beach road in the right hand field with the cows. ) [Ann Duff]
4 Buzzard (Birds seen constantly during the day with a maximum of 4 together), 1 Kestrel (Chasing Barn Owl after its kill.), 1 Barn Owl (The leucistic bird that has been around for a while flew past with a kill and was chased by a very vocal kestrel with ideas on a free meal.), 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Song Thrush (Singing),
1 Blackcap (Male bird singing), 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Bullfinch (Both piping) [David Fell]
Monday 06 April 2020
2 Wheatear (On bank north of the marsh to west of Cley windmill.) [Michael Harcup]
1 Spoonbill (Flew west along coast), 2 Swallow (West ) [Richard Petley]
Sunday 05 April 2020
1 Sand Martin (Flying east, seen from skirts path.) [Michael Harcup]
1 Great White Egret (Stalking the main E/W drain north of Friary Hills), 1 Swallow (Flying west along edge of Friary Hills path. A joyous sign of hope and summer. What good fortune to have this walk five minutes from home, and that the area was passed for safe-keeping from development, to the National Trust some years ago),
1 Song Thrush (Collecting nest mud from pond edge in our garden), 1 Redwing (Heard calling from trees south of the Coast Road) [Tom Green]
3 Sand Martin (A walk along the cliff top at West Runton produced our first Sand Martins and a Swallow.), 1 Swallow (Heading west ), 1 Black Redstart (In the field running alongside the road to the carpark at West Runton.), 2 Wheatear (In the field running alongside the road to the carpark at West Runton.), 2 Song Thrush (A pair in the hedgerow near the carpark at West Runton) [Ann Duff]
Saturday 04 April 2020
1 Osprey (West over Old Woman's Lane) [Kath & Mick Claydon]
2 Grey Partridge (in field SE of Wiveton Rd/Blakeney Rd crossroads), 1 Red Kite (over fields to NW of village), 2 Buzzard, 3 Redwing (sat up in tree in Fox Hill Plantation), 3 Blackcap, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Jay [David & Pat Wileman]
2 Great White Egret (9.15am flew in from west and landed together on Cricket Marsh), 1 Red Kite, 1 Peregrine Falcon (ad male flew south), 1 Little Ringed Plover (on Whitwell Scrape), 4 Ruff, 90 Black-tailed Godwit (circa, on main scrapes), 51 Curlew (on Bull Marsh) [Steve Gantlett]
Friday 03 April 2020
1 Teal (male has joined the Tufted Ducks , Gadwall and Mallards on the lake), 1 Sparrowhawk (Male again storming the feeders), 2 Kestrel (A pair haunting the area around the nest box in the garden where a pair reared successfully two young last summer , display fliying and calling ; they have been around most of the winter), 1 Barn Owl (Hunting out from the house this evening and along the river for 45 minutes or so ), 2 Mistle Thrush (A pair apparently feeding young in a nest ten feet up in the Yew tree twenty feet out from my kitchen door . This may explain one bird tenaciously pursuing male Sparrowhawk here which flew close six days ago .) [Richard Price]
1 Great White Egret (On the fields east of the beach road until flushed by a...), 1 Red Kite (Low over south) [Richard Petley]
Thursday 02 April 2020
1 Swallow (Heading west over the marshes this afternoon. ) [Richard Petley]
2 Red Kite (A pair drifted west then gained height and made their way towards the reserve), 1 Marsh Harrier (Male sky dancing), 2 Buzzard (The usual pair displaying), 1 Chiffchaff (Usual male singing), 2 Coal Tit (Both singing), 1 Nuthatch (Heard and finally seen), 6 Jay (3 pairs in a territorial dispute which went on for over an hour.), 1 Bullfinch (Cracking male) [David Fell]
1 Great White Egret (Feeding on the central Freshes, along north channel, best observed from North Coast path. ),
1 Tawny Owl (Resting in usual roost hole. Photo taken on previous date. A regular sighting on the local patch walk. ), 1 Green Woodpecker (Heard in Kettlehill Plantation ) [Richard Burton]
1 Red Kite (Drifted over garden,mid morning.) [Michael Harcup]
1 Firecrest [Steve Gantlett]
Wednesday 01 April 2020
1 Sparrowhawk (Seems to be the week of the Sparrowhawks. This one in our garden on the northern edge of Holt. If it's the same bird this would have been the third white dove (owner unknown) to perish in her talons. The other two having made an almighty mess of the lawns! However this attempted kill was a metre from our dining room doors whilst Mrs G was sitting reading. The result was -50 odd feathers - being plucked from the living dove and Mrs G then deciding enough was enough - interfering with nature? No - squeamish wife! ) [David Griffiths]
1 Red Kite (Drifting east from Keepers Marsh) [Michael Harcup]
1 Black Swan (2nd yr on Snipe's Marsh - the first for some years), 8 Pink-footed Goose (in Eye Field), 7 Pochard (6 on Don's Pool and 1 on Snipe's Marsh.), 1 Red Kite (over West Bank), 6 Marsh Harrier (5 over West Bank, including a pair in full sky-dance, and a male nest-building beside the boardwalk) [Steve Gantlett]
1 Red Kite (1 drifting NE over Langham this morning.), 1 Blackcap (Female back for a second evening to drink and take a dip in the pond.) [Kath & Mick Claydon]
Tuesday 31 March 2020
4 Buzzard (4 seen together 3 times during the day. The resident pair displaying.), 1 Kestrel (Heard calling), 1 Blackcap (Heard singing (16.05) in private garden), 1 Chiffchaff (Singing), 1 Nuthatch (Heard calling but kept hidden) [David Fell]
1 Great White Egret (@11.30) [Richard Burton]
8 Pink-footed Goose (on Cricket Marsh), 1 Great White Egret (again on Cricket Marsh early afternoon), 1 Purple Heron (adult again on Keeper's Marsh early afternoon), 1 Red Kite (over Marsh early afternoon), 5 Buzzard (together over North Foreland), 1 Cuckoo (one calling early morning behind Cley Hall - not me, unconfirmed report : Tony Marr!), 1 Black Redstart (female type still by boats and tractors on beach) [Steve Gantlett]
Monday 30 March 2020
1 Purple Heron (Stonking bird in full breeding plumage in the ditches opposite "Thrums" on Coast Road.) [Calum Lamont]
2 Mute Swan (One bird was today on a nest in the bullrushes on the edge of the lake later joining its mate way down the lake - last year the pair resident here had no cygnets ),
1 Sparrowhawk (Male again active this afternoon at the house storming the bird table , then diving into the adjacent small Holly bush , before perching on the front door porch and then taking its favoured lookout spot on the Judas tree .),
1 Grey Wagtail ( again at the bridge) [Richard Price]
1 Spoonbill (On marshes just east of Iron Road seen from A149) [Michael Harcup]
1 Red Kite (Driting over Cley garden) [Michael Harcup]
1 White wagtail [alba] (Male; in the ploughed field west of Rocky Bottom restaurant) [Ann Duff]
Sunday 29 March 2020
1 Robin (With lots of time to spend in the garden I thought it was time to tidy up the garden shed. Imagine my surprise when I opened the day and two birds flew out through the window. I carefully looked around and behind a heap of netting in a cardboard box found a nest. A third bird immediately flew from the nest after the other two before I could get a good look at it. After closer observation the sitting bird is a robin; what were the other two doing there?) [Ann Duff]
Saturday 28 March 2020
2 Buzzard, 1 Tawny Owl,
1 Green Woodpecker (Male, calling in Kettlehill Plantation ) [Richard Burton]
1 House Martin (Fake News See photo. Hard to Swallow?),
2 Pied Wagtail (Enjoying the freedom and flies of the empty High Street Bowling Green.), 2 House Sparrow (In the gutter of the High Street Guildhall Flats near the Quay. Very restricted in range. Not on our garden list yet but often present in the Westgate Street/Village Hall area) [Tom Green]
1 Purple Heron (fine adult, in ditches at Gramborough/Meadow Lane Marshes, mostly out of sight skulking out of the wind, as they do, but showing distantly occasionally. Flew to the Quags at one point, but circled round and came back again.) [Steve Gantlett]
Friday 27 March 2020
1 Sparrowhawk (A male spent just over one hour wandering round and resting on the edge of our garden pond. Note the deformed hind claws.) [Kath & Mick Claydon]
5 Mallard (An average day for numbers of birds, but this love struck posse made passes over the garden, and at each other, quacking enthusiastically.), 1 Tawny Owl (Calling from Friary Farm area), 6 Starling (This group were the first of the species seen in a week, and at dusk in the eerie quiet I pickeded out the call of Redshank and Greylag Goose in the distance. If the excellent records today on Birdguides are anything to go by Garden watching is now sweeping the nation. Such a positive in these dark times. ) [Tom Green]
1 Blackcap (male), 4 Chiffchaff (at least), 3 Yellowhammer [David & Pat Wileman]
1 Osprey (Reported early morning, not by me, alas) [Steve Gantlett]
1 Pochard (still Snipe's Marsh), 1 Great White Egret (presumably the same one as here and mainly Blakeney Freshes since 2nd March), 4 Spoonbill (adults east together late morning, then dropped onto Cricket Marsh midday), 3 Red Kite [Steve Gantlett]
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff [Ann Duff]
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