Sunday 16 February 2020
2 Pintail (Pr through West.), 2 Eider (1st Win foraging offshore (EM pick-up)), 6 Common Scoter (Foraging offshore.), 2 Red-throated Diver (+, Several SP appeared over last few days. Still loads of win birds too.), 10 Great Crested Grebe (+, Foraging offshore, several SP.), 1 Fulmar (Through West, distant.), 8 Gannet (+, Singles East all Ad.), 2 Razorbill (At least, full SP. Feeding movement. ) [Graham Fellows]
Saturday 15 February 2020
1 Pochard (Drake pushed off Snipes Marsh by Pigeon blasting, on to Simmond’s.), 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Incl 2 off ‘intermedius’.), 1 Great Black-backed Gull (Norwegian CR, JE566, present again.), 1 Kingfisher (Female struggling to keep her balance on reed stem, windstorm knocking her all over the place.) [Graham Fellows]
2 Dark-bellied Brent Goose (Finally, close views of the two CR’d birds I first saw last December. Lime Green - RL: J, LL: 3, Ditto D4.), 1 Red-throated Diver (Close inshore, almost complete Sum plumage.) [Graham Fellows]
Friday 14 February 2020
1 Yellow-legged Gull (Ad in almost at last knockings.), 1 Kingfisher (Female on form again.) [Graham Fellows]
1 Barn Owl (Perched on fence post rear Duck Pond, relaxed, enjoying the morning sunshine.) [Graham Fellows]
Thursday 13 February 2020
1 Marsh Harrier (Interesting 2CY Male. Smart primary covert crescent.), 1 Coot (Refugee from Snipe’s Marsh. Spring on its way.), 75 Curlew (+, Herd feeding back of Walsey.),
2 Caspian Gull (Scruffy 2nd Win plus 3rd Win. Both new birds not seen previously. Both in almost at the dimming.), 1 Kingfisher (Female performing her stuff again. What a pleasure.) [Graham Fellows]
1 Brambling (First appeared here yesterday.) [Steve Hale]
Wednesday 12 February 2020
1 Caspian Gull (Neat 3rd Win, new bird not seen before. ), 1 Kingfisher (Regular female, cracking display.) [Graham Fellows]
Tuesday 11 February 2020
1 Peregrine Falcon (Impressive display, aggressive and very vocal towards an interfering Marsh Harrier.), 3 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Incl 3rd Win.), 1 Yellow-legged Gull (1st Win Simmond’s), 1 Caspian Gull (2nd Win in again almost on time.) [Graham Fellows]
7 Tundra Bean Goose (Pleasantly amazed. Through East with wind up their tails. ), 3 Fulmar (Effortlessly through West.), 7 Gannet (+, Going East at pace.), 1 Shag (Ad through along tideline West.) [Graham Fellows]
Monday 10 February 2020
1 Spoonbill (Ethereal as it flew into Simmond’s from North Scrape in the heart of the snow blast like some huge ‘white winger’. Snowbird!), 1 Caspian Gull (Regular but unpredictable 2nd Win in again just before the snow set in. Looking fine in the heavy flurry.), 1 Great Black-backed Gull (C-R RL: Black : White characters stained . (EM pick-up). Failed to read it in dull, rainy conditions. Finally, MAG nailed it : JE566, and verified origin. Nice one, Norwegian. 25yrs old. Very first time seen out of Norway. Wow! Who said Gulls are unexciting.) [Graham Fellows]
Sunday 09 February 2020
45 Avocet (Pat’s ), 4 Ringed Plover (Simmond’s.), 7 Golden Plover (With Lapwings on Pat’s ), 6 Dunlin (Simmond’s ), 70 Black-tailed Godwit (+, Pat’s ), 7 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Incl an ‘intermediate’.), 3 Caspian Gull (Regular 2nd Win in after absence of several evenings. Also a Sub-Ad and an impressive Nr-Ad, ‘goosebumps’.) [Graham Fellows]
Saturday 08 February 2020
6 White-fronted Goose (What appeared to be the same group of Whitefronts as I reported here a week ago , together with the unusually small Pinkfoot , feeding with about 250 Greylags on the south side of the lake .) [Richard Price]
6 White-fronted Goose (South of Bayfield House with Greylags. A different bunch to a group of six seen last week at Cley.) [David Griffiths]
Friday 07 February 2020
1 Hooded Crow (Wide Ranging) [Tom Whiley]
60 Red-throated Diver (+, Foraging offshore.), 7 Great Crested Grebe (At least 2 off SP. Offshore.), 6 Fulmar (Working through West.) [Graham Fellows]
1 Marsh Harrier, 100 Grey Plover (approx., packed together on mudflats.), 1 Kingfisher,
10 Twite (East of NT gate, in field, showing well.) [John Fairey]
3 Woodlark (singing) [Steve Hale]
Thursday 06 February 2020
26 Avocet (Churned around Pat’s and Simmond’s ), 16 Ruff (Pat’s ), 65 Black-tailed Godwit (Around Pat’s and Simmond’s on the churn.), 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Red CR, white letters, LL: AWAN. Returning bird for last several winters. Suffolk ringed then seen in Morocco as a 1st Win, then more locally since. (P&DW)) [Graham Fellows]
Wednesday 05 February 2020
2 Egyptian Goose (the pair spent the morning loafing in trees overlooking Snipe's), 1 Cetti's Warbler (still singing over last few days) [Steve Hale]
Tuesday 04 February 2020
18 Black-tailed Godwit (Incl a warm flushed-up fellow.), 2 Caspian Gull (2nd Win, well marked of the regular two of late. Near-Ad, not bird of yesterday.) [Graham Fellows]
1 Red-necked Grebe (on sea briefly - wave height picked up through the afternoon and lost to view quite quickly), 1 Fulmar (East) [David Griffiths]
1 Red-breasted Merganser (Red-head drifting East in building surf.), 1 Fulmar (Doing what they do best, West.), 2000 Guillemot/Razorbill (+, Through East but dot watching.), 2 Razorbill (East.) [Graham Fellows]
1 Red-necked Grebe (Flying west.) [Malcolm (Al) Davies]
5 Eider (Drakes plus single Duck, East.), 1 Fulmar (Enjoying the breeze, West.), 1 Purple Sandpiper (Through surf off West.), 1 Franklin's Gull (Possible, East, around 08:35. Appeared to land on sea but lost in heavy swell.) [Graham Fellows]
5 Eider (4 males plus female/imm east high), 90 Common Scoter (flock took off from NW of Coastguards and flew west. Others in low numbers later.), 5 Great Crested Grebe (3 on sea and 2 west), 45 Golden Plover (15 west and later 30ish on Eye Field), 1 Purple Sandpiper (west), 100 Dunlin (approx all west 42 + 45 + grps of 2-3 ), 50 Common Gull (approx west), 1 Kittiwake (Juvenile west) [David Griffiths]
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