More vandalism of NOA property ?
With an anticyclone over Iberia, winds from the south-west, warmth in the air and even some sunshine, I drove all the way to West Runton, hoping for an early Wheatear. The farm buildings are still being transformed- into ? ? ? It continues to appear that a (very) good job is being made, even if it’s frustrating for those of us whose patch it was.
The regular Med Gull had not been digging around in snow- it’s the last of its winter plumage on the way out.
BudWatch at Gramboro’ provides another image.
A long search around the shingle east of the north end of the East Bank convinced me that the Shorelarks had gone west; and, indeed, they were reported from nearer to the North Hide (I wasn’t going to go there, too, as I am still recovering from the stinker of a cold) later. I thus walked south, back to the car, having encompassed notalot, except all points of the compass- some twice.
Driving east from Cley, and in what I imagined was going to be a repeat performance of the Hempton vandalism, I saw a human attempting to climb on top of the hide at Walsey Hills NOA. Swerving into the car park, I grabbed my bins and looked: it was a male teenager with, presumably, its male and female progenitors accompanying. Sounding my horn (vorsprung durch ohrenbetäubend) a few times had the desired effect and the youth desisted, jumping down with alacrity.
