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    Norfolk birding

    It's not unusual to see a kittiwake flying off the coast, but today there were two fighting with a black-headed gull over a chip on the beach at Winterton. First time I've seen them running around the feet of holiday makers - is this new or did I just not get the memo?
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    Norfolk birding

    So I was at Burgh Castle today and at around 12 a Great White Egret flew over the river into Halvergate. Have they got commoner lately or was I just lucky. (I confess I haven't been keeping up on birds - I keep getting blindsided by what's breeding here nowadays)
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    Norfolk birding

    Talk may be of interest Bird migration in a changing world - UEA http://www.uea.ac.uk/events/-/bird-migration-in-a-changing-world?inheritRedirect=true&redirect=/web/events
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    Norfolk birding

    re Stone Curlews http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/breckland-roost-at-cavenham-heath-is-a-rare-chance-to-see-the-secretive-stone-curlew-with-rspb-and-natural-england-1-5186171
  5. H

    Norfolk birding

    You could say that: http://orig04.deviantart.net/1e82/f/2012/202/b/8/british_isles_in_2100_by_the9988-d583szc.jpg
  6. H

    Norfolk birding

    St Helens' Picnic Site, Santon Downing. There's a consultation by the Forestry Commission about options for the site. If anyone here uses it they might want to weigh in. https://dialogue.forestry.gov.uk/st-helens-picnic-site-consultation
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    Norfolk birding

    Nature conservation funding in the UK comes from a few sources: Agi-environment farm subsidies, national lottery, landfill tax and defra grants mostly. Defra has had its budget cut by 66%, agi-environment payments will likely dry up after 2020 due to brexit, landfill tax has been cut and...
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    Norfolk birding

    If there's one point everyone involved would agree on, it's that, however they're submitted, if at all possible they should be electronic. Retyping paper records is a deeply depressing experience. (But I'd still rather have them on paper than not at all) As to "observers of unknown ability" -...
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    Norfolk birding

    I fell prey to unconscious bias of course. I'm used to a single database holding all records. Of course in birds there are multiple sets of records from multiple schemes run by multiple groups. And there's no requirement that a county bird report use all the data: it doesn't go away and can be...
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    Norfolk birding

    Oh and it didn't include the files for some reason. Lets try again
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    Norfolk birding

    From the Blackbird BT data, Distribution of records as a map and number of reports per day over the year. Took 18 minutes including downloading the data from here. And that's by hand - to do this for a lot of species I'd take a couple of hours to knock up some macros and then let Excel do the...
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    Norfolk birding

    Not fantastically rare, and getting more common each year, but still a nice thing to see. You can log your sighting at http://www.norfolkmoths.co.uk
  13. H

    Norfolk birding

    I don't know it, but this might be a useful tool for a virtual explore beforehand http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/TM2698
  14. H

    Norfolk birding

    I hear there was a white-tailed eagle over costessey this afternoon. Apparently several birders watching it, so surprised it's not listed anywhere I can see.
  15. H

    Norfolk birding

    If I might hijack this thread briefly? For those who don't normally follow the Butterfly thread, you should be aware that we have a new species of butterfly for Britain (well apart from one disputed sighting in the 50's it's new) in Norfolk The Yellow-legged Tortoiseshell is much larger than our...
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    Norfolk birding

    Anyone know anything about this? http://www.thepetitionsite.com/756/593/892/save-burgh-castle-marshes/ It's the first I've heard of it.
  17. H

    Norfolk birding

    Driving along the Acle straight towards Yarmouth at 1.15 today I had a slim brown harrier with a white rump lift up and glide along the dyke. It glided with the wings held in a pronounced V, not the flat angle of a Hen Harrier, but definately had a white rump (albeit rather fuzzy around the...
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    Norfolk birding

    My juvenile notebooks are full of tree sparrows and spotted fly, while a sparrowhawk was a red-letter day - and there simply weren't any other raptors other than kestrel. I had to go to wales to see my first buzzard. Thankfully eliminating ddt has fixed the raptor problem, but there's little...
  19. H

    Norfolk birding

    A chap at work today described seeing what sounds to have been a great grey shrike, seen Jan1 in a tree on the side of the Ludham/Horning road just before Horning.
  20. H

    Norfolk birding

    The BioBlitz at the Dinosaur park at Lenwade yesterday was also enlivened by a Red Kite fly over around 3pm. Also a Bullfinch flew in front of the car as we left.
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    Norfolk birding

    There's bee orchids all around the pond in the broadland business park just off the bypass in norwich at the moment. I counted eight mixed in with an impressive array of widflowers (which seem to have come out of a packet - but good to see some thought going into landscaping)
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    Norfolk birding

    I had something this morning while driving into Norwich. Just come off the acle roundabout heading to Norwich at 8:40 this morning and there was a raptor in the sky. Very long tail, slim pointed wings. It was against the sky so no plumage details but appeared to have uniformly dark brown...
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    Norfolk birding

    Huh? I was at the hoopoe at waxham from 10.30 to 11. Cracking bird and showing very well in my 8x30 bins. It was only about 20yds into the holiday park, so about 80yds from where we were in the dunes. One guy was taking photos with his phone!
  24. H

    Norfolk birding

    Badger records to county badger recorder johncrouchwildlife AT yahoo.co.uk
  25. H

    Norfolk birding

    Great Yarmouth's Velvet Scoter was between the outer harbour and the concrete structure just north of the harbour yesterday morning. Quite close in (c80m) and giving good views.
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