JDog Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Whitebridges said: The last week or so we seem to be inundated with Pied Flycatchers all along the Norfolk coastline. Sightings from Burnham Overy, Blakeney point, Holme, Winterton and Beeston Common to name but a few. It would seem the autumn migration is well underway. Same here along the Lincolnshire coast. Common Rosefinch (anything but common) sighted, netted and ringed. Edited September 6, 2021 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted September 6, 2021 Report Share Posted September 6, 2021 You guys get some weird and wonderful birds over there. My big thrill is seeing at least two families of bullfinches coming to our feeders, a three and a four plus parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moor man Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 Last winter got some close up views of a pair of water rail, very obliging as they fed along a hedgerow in full sight. We often get peregrines in off the coast hunting and training their young ones. Had gannets diving on mackerel whilst out kayak fishing here in s.devon. A favourite walk on the river dart almost always produces goosander, dipper and kingfishers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 There is a White Tailed Lapwing at Blacktoft Sands. A rarity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Boggy Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, JDog said: There is a White Tailed Lapwing at Blacktoft Sands. A rarity. Not a rarity such as the white tailed lapwing, but this did remind me of an albino lapwing that visited the same field near me every winter for about seven years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 23, 2021 Report Share Posted September 23, 2021 In addition to seeing the Pinks heading North yesterday I saw a raft of 300 plus Common Scoters, not a bird I have seen in any numbers before. I read up about them and an interesting fact emerged. They apparently migrate from the Irish Sea over land and over night to the English Channel before heading North to breed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 835 Pinks South off Sutton on Sea yesterday between 10 and 2. They will be in Norfolk by now, soon to be on sugarbeet tops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 Rose coloured starling at Titchwell yesterday and today. A friend saw his first Brent goose of the season this week while out sea fishing in his kayak off Trimingham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 25, 2021 Report Share Posted September 25, 2021 13 hours ago, JDog said: 835 Pinks South off Sutton on Sea yesterday between 10 and 2. They will be in Norfolk by now, soon to be on sugarbeet tops. If that is the case then they will be bang on time , normally arrive down here around the third to fourth week of Sept after spending a few days up north of the county . the only drawback is as far as I know is they haven't started lifting the beet yet , in fact I went past a field of beet today and the leaves had wilted as if it was the height of the Summer , due to get some rain over the next few days . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted September 28, 2021 Report Share Posted September 28, 2021 Happy to say we are still getting Goldfinch's on the feeders, I had ran out of Nyger seed but after maybe a week they reappeared. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 2, 2021 Report Share Posted October 2, 2021 A very late brood of House martins just outside the village and a group of Swallows this morning, followed by a long distance binocular sighting of three Fieldfares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 2, 2021 Report Share Posted October 2, 2021 We have some late swallows around here as well. They had been in the area all summer so where not travelling. Is it getting late for them to set off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted October 11, 2021 Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 First Redwing of the Autumn reported in Gloucestershire yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted October 29, 2021 Report Share Posted October 29, 2021 A Varied thrush on Orkney. Only the second ever seen in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 First Bewick Swan of the winter, arrived at WWT Slimbridge, on Saturday 30th October'21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 Snow buntings at Theddlethorpe yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, JDog said: Snow buntings at Theddlethorpe yesterday. I must look those up. I had a cock and hen bird on my feed table last week and they just didn't fit. Not chaffinches and not bullfinches. Maybe ????? The hen bird was brightly speckled bit bigger than a chaffinch. The male bird was lighter than a chaffinch on top but had a bib which appeared pinkish and white / grey below. Doesn't quite fit with the snowbuntingg shown on youtube. Could they have been immature. Edited November 2, 2021 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Walker570 said: I must look those up. I had a cock and hen bird on my feed table last week and they just didn't fit. Not chaffinches and not bullfinches. Maybe ????? The hen bird was brightly speckled bit bigger than a chaffinch. The male bird was lighter than a chaffinch on top but had a bib which appeared pinkish and white / grey below. Doesn't quite fit with the snowbuntingg shown on youtube. Could they have been immature. Could they have been Brambling ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 Sounds like a Redpoll or Lesser Redpoll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) I will have a look in my bird book and on youtube. Thanks You cracked it twenty. Just looked on youtube and it was a brambling, a pair. First sighting for me and first in our little 10 acre wood. Many thanks. Note in diary accordingly. All the small songbirds, nuthatch etc where hitting the feed tables this afternoon about 3pm I think they know it is going to be a cold night. Frost a possibility. Their weather man is more than often more precise than ours. Edited November 2, 2021 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 In fact if these have come all the way from the Baltic region they have spread well across the UK as we are as near as darn it smack in the middle. Great thrilled to bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Walker570 said: I will have a look in my bird book and on youtube. Thanks You cracked it twenty. Just looked on youtube and it was a brambling, a pair. First sighting for me and first in our little 10 acre wood. Many thanks. Note in diary accordingly. All the small songbirds, nuthatch etc where hitting the feed tables this afternoon about 3pm I think they know it is going to be a cold night. Frost a possibility. Their weather man is more than often more precise than ours. Good to know that you have seen your first Bramblings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted November 2, 2021 Report Share Posted November 2, 2021 7 minutes ago, JDog said: Good to know that you have seen your first Bramblings. Yes, we are a long flight in from the coast and of course they will be fairly common along the east coast. Pleased they dropped in for a feed before maybe moving on. We now have seven feed tables around our 10 acre wood. I just set pallets on four half rounds legs and closed the gaps. each table has a live catch cage modified with a nut feeder in the end. Cost us a fortune but well worth while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted November 4, 2021 Report Share Posted November 4, 2021 A Ring Ouzel on Cleeve hill yesterday, and another at Tewkesbury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted November 9, 2021 Report Share Posted November 9, 2021 A Snow Bunting yesterday at Prestbury, Cheltenham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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