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    Suffolk Birding

    Illegal bird killing in the OSME region is the theme of this year's OSME Summer Meeting, to be held at The Nunnery, Thetford on Sat 4 July. Full programme: http://osme.org/content/osme-summer-meeting-and-37th-agm Brief talk/speaker outlines...
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    Suffolk Birding

    The Ornithological Society of the Middle East (OSME) Summer Meeting and 36th AGM will be held at BTO Headquarters, Thetford IP24 2PU (only just over the border!) on Saturday 5 July. Non-members welcome, no attendance charge. Programme: 11.10 Latest update on the BTO satellite-tagged cuckoos...
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    Suffolk Birding

    Suspicious activity at sensitive site in Breckland Prompted by recent discussions on the Norfolk thread: On Wednesday 14 March I witnessed some very suspicious behaviour at a Breckland site known to hold several Schedule 1 breeding species. I have since contacted the landowner; the vehicle...
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    Suffolk Birding

    Yup - though it hasn't moved far yet: Retrapped on Sat 3rd Dec by a friend, a whopping 300m from where we caught it! Cheers, Nick
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    Suffolk Birding

    For anyone who is now goosed-out... Dave Leech and I caught and ringed a very unusual-looking Lesser Redpoll at the Nunnery Lakes on 26 November (which was also seen on 23 November elsewhere in Thetford). Given the fact its head is almost entirely white and we've now ringed it (on its right...
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    Suffolk Birding

    More Bean Goose shots from early this morning; I was less than half the distance away but the light was twice as bad (especially for 'taigas1', when they were really close)! These ought to clinch the Taigas though.
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    Suffolk Birding

    Yes - according to this useful Dutch reference, fab M > fab F = ross M > ross F. Someone 'helpfully' flushed them this morning (I was going to yell 'FIELDCRAFT!!!', then I remembered fieldcraft...) - I thought the Taiga-types were detectably longer-winged. Yes - the Taiga-types look more...
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    Suffolk Birding

    Thanks Sean. What I should have said is "a mixed flock of Taiga and Tundra is exceptional, according to my own experience and what I've read" ;) Still think its a rare occurrence in the UK, though of course there was that very interesting mixed flock in Shetland Feb 2010...
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    Suffolk Birding

    Keeping up the high quality images on this page (sorry Jonny - your plastic falcon is quite nice!), here are a couple of pics of the Lackford Bean Geese. In the flock-shot, the bird on its own in the middle and the bird on the far right are the two proposed as Taiga; for me the more extreme of...
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    Suffolk Birding

    All quiet just over the border in Thetford on Friday; 6 (local) Buzzard, a family of 4 Kestrel, 1 Hobby and 1 Sparrowhawk. Having expressed my preference re: the Suffolk vs Norfolk coasts, a couple of friends from BTO went east for their wedding anniversary last weekend and found a Pec Sand at...
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    Suffolk Birding

    Phone me if anything's headed our way... I'll be out trying to improve on yesterday's haul down the Nunnery Lakes
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    Suffolk Birding

    Steady JC - didn't you just page your way to a Wryneck up there?! ;) Used to be a regular visitor to the Suffolk coast when I lived in Stowie in the noughties but tried Thorpeness-Aldeburgh with a BTO posse on a good-looking day last autumn and it just didn't do the business... sorry! That and...
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