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Recent content by Colin at Dereham

  1. Colin at Dereham

    Anything new or different on your local patch.

    Eastward movement of pink-footed geese over Dereham today, 90 in the morning and 200 this afternoon.
  2. Colin at Dereham

    Anything new or different on your local patch.

    Still quiet here at Dereham; the only thing new has been a lone golden plover. It was pleasant walking without the wind whipping across the fields today. Looking at the weather charts, there's a ridge of high pressure stretching from Eastern Europe to the North Sea for the next few days, with...
  3. Colin at Dereham

    Anything new or different on your local patch.

    I'm writing this to see if there's an interest in a thread on general bird populations in the East Anglian region. Reports dont have to refer to anything especially rare or be based on particularly rigorous recording methods, but rather anything locally noteworthy that just might reflect a wider...
  4. Colin at Dereham

    Remember to check for TICKS of another kind!

    I stay well away from dead deer these days. I caught Lyme disease from a tic shortly after spending a few minutes sitting near to a deer skeleton.
  5. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    With the strong SW winds dropping, there has been a fresh influx of fieldfares at Dereham, and a couple of brambling. Also, I have been pleasantly surprised to find snipe and a green sandpiper feeding on puddles on ploughed fields on the higher ground.
  6. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    It has been a quiet few days at Dereham; the only thing new has been a few common snipe, which, I guess, are migrants that crossed before the winds changed. The fieldfares have all passed through; a few redwings remain and lots of blackbirds. I dont expect to be going in any hides for a...
  7. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    It's been quite a weekend. For a couple of days there's been redwings calling from the trees everywhere in Dereham. Fieldfares have been all over the fields, and gangs of blackbirds have been rampaging through gardens. Sadly, already, the redwings and fieldfares have mostly moved on. I find it...
  8. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    Yes I still get a thrill seeing redwings close up. The weather for the next few days looks good for our regular Scandinavian visitors, gentle NE winds and a lot of clear sky, just a few showers. Should be a trouble free crossing for them. Hopefully something less regular will turn up as well.
  9. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    In the calmer weather there's been a steady passage of small flocks of redwing heading west over Dereham this morning. 225 counted in 90 minutes including three that stopped to fill up with holly berries in next-doors garden.
  10. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    Rest assured Youth, I am having a good look at everything, and listening out for those yellow-browed warblers too!
  11. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    A fairly quiet week here at Dereham! No obvious movements, although flocks are accumulating, greenfinches 40, linnets 95, skylarks 90. Meadow pipits are present in ones and twos and theres a few swallows still. Very few thrushes in the open countryside, just the odd solitary blackbird chipping...
  12. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    Thanks for the welcome 'Youth' and 'Nospringchicken' . Indeed, I will report anything exciting, if possible, or otherwise, notewothy. I do myself, like to read about what others are recording in the less celebrated parts of the countryside. Cheers, Colin.
  13. Colin at Dereham

    Norfolk birding

    I'd like to add my voice to those others also welcoming renewed activity on this thread. I had come across it previously when it was sadly inactive. For reasons I won't go into, I am staying at Dereham for the foreseeable future, and without transport,and so restricted to sites within walking...
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