28th and 29th spent in Norfolk, seeing my friend Sacha and not so many birds.
I did Burhman Overy Dunes on 28th, avoiding the twitchers looking for the Booted Warbler (which had gone) and the Barred Warbler (which was present but was hiding as I passed). Things I did see included one very active
Redstart, one
Whitethroat, one
Garden Warbler, three
Chiffchaffs and a
Hobby. It was hard to dig anything out in the strong breeze - birds were keeping low in the patches of scrub and it took a lot of sitting, waiting and pishing to see what I did.
The 29th was spent flogging Blakeney Point, Sacha's local patch, to seek out any migrants. We did pretty poorly with 1-2
Wheatears, two
Stonechats, two
Song Thrushes and a
Garden Warbler. Best was a group of four
Spoonbills that went east down the Point early AM.
Good numbers of Pink-footed Geese seen on both days, moving along the coast, and I wonder about the origin of a party of four Barnacle Geese that I saw at Burnham.
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| Northern Wheatear, Blakeney Pt |
My last bit of UK birding on 30th was spent at Fen Drayton RSPB in Cambridgeshire, which seemed to have more warblers than the coast!
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| Long-tailed Tit, Fen Drayton RSPB |
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| Chiffchaff, Fen Drayton RSPB |
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