North East Norfolk Bird Club NENBC

Early morning visit to Cromer for the NENBC Coordinated Seawatch, no sun first thing (or later!) but the Pier was looking quite bright. Birds of note seen incl: Artic Skua, Mediterranean Gull, Red-throated Diver, Razorbill, Brent Goose, Gannet, Shag, Common Scoter, Wigeon, Teal.

Plenty of very active #BeardedTits at #CleyMarshes #NorfolkBirding today

Right place right time for a change. #LongEaredOwl roosting along the #NorthNorfolk coast today #NorfolkBirding

Brilliant morning at Cley. Osprey low over our heads. Wood sandpiper and water rail right in front of us. Spotted redshank, raven, yellow-legged and Mediterranean gulls, 5 green sandpipers, 16 ruff, 2 dunlin, 34 curlews, Sandwich tern, 3 spoonbills, all 3 egrets etc. Plus a clouded yellow butterfly

Happisburgh today in the sunshine: first Pied Fly of the autumn (Blacksmiths Lane), Whimbrel, juv Marsh Harrier and trickle of Swallows north, Yellow Wag south, Lesser Whitethroat, 200+ Med Gulls, Hummingbird Hawkmoth. Lovely to be back!

Minsmere Sandwich Tern colony hits 50-year high Minsmere RSPB in Suffolk has recorded its highest number of fledged Sandwich Tern chicks since 1974. With 205 chicks fledging from 296 nesting pairs, this success follows years of habitat improvements at the reserve. The vulnerable species' recovery marks a significant moment for UK coastal bird conservation efforts.

Minsmere RSPB has recorded its highest number of fledged Sandwich Tern chicks since 1974, with at least 205 young birds successfully leaving the nest this summer:

Supplementary feeding of European Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur: provisioned field plots are preferentially used and do not have higher frequency of the parasite Trichomonas gallinae Field plots provisioned with a supplementary seed mix during summer attracted European Turtle Doves and other farmland birds, and exhibited only a low incidence of the parasite Trichomonas gallinae...

Supplementary feeding of European Turtle Doves Streptopelia turtur: provisioned field plots are preferentially used and do not have higher frequency of the parasite Trichomonas gallinae...

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The image shows a pale brown, fluffy-looking juvenile bird, growing up and maturing as it begins to get its red breast feathers. Now independent of its parents, the Robin was out foraging in the garden this morning.

Juvenile Robin, growing up....

The face of a Barn Owl peeks around the brick wall of a barn as it perches on the building window ledge.

New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶

Pleased to see this Ruddy Darter in the garden this afternoon, not recorded one before. Tawny Owls are often heard but rarely seen in the garden but today a pellet appeared on the lawn.

Barn Owl monitoring on the Sandringham estate, despite parts of East Anglia reporting a bad year, these boxes did well from 21 boxes, we had 15 in use, with 11 with chicks, total of 31 young, with the largest brood being 4. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social

Heads and Tales from the Depths of Stow Heath Another work party, and what a great crowd of enthusiastic volunteers! We were treated to an update by Trevor on all the work that's been done by Dom... continuing our programme of pond restoration he...

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Want nesting Swallows... build a pond!💧
With no accessible water or wet mud nearby we built a pond by one of our field shelters, hoping they nested. Swallows are a common rural bird but, declined by 25% in the last 30 years. They are frequent on the reserve in autumn but never nested... until now!

Another fine 'tern fest' off Lowestoft North Denes this evening, 100s of common tern passed south between 6 and 7pm, including 2 arctic tern, one landing on the groyne. Plus a single juv little tern and several sandwich. Little gull also present in the car park again.

12 August marks the start of the Snipe shooting season in GB (not NI).
Historically, drainage has massively reduced breeding numbers. Species is amber-listed.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social trend for 1995-2023 is +17%.
Blog about Snipe & Jack Snipe:
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This is your sign to spend time in nature 🤗

The typically messy, brown twig nest of a Woodpigeon in the mixed native hedging of our garden. The nests always look rather thrown together and shabby. Various green leaves, brown branches and trunks of the hedge can be seen, supporting a bird's nest in the photo.

The image shows a broken, empty white bird's egg among the brown leaf litter of the hedgerow floor.

The image shows a damage, but mostly intact, unhatched white bird's egg among the brown leaf litter of the hedgerow floor.

About a month ago, we noticed a Woodpigeon nest building in the back hedgerow & have been avoiding the area. However, after a run of recent Sparrowhawk & Jay activity, we had a peek today. It seems the nest/bird has been predated....

Batman Hoverfly on Sage plant in the garden and a Robin just sitting on the fence.

Volucella pellucens, a large hoverfly with a striking cream-coloured band across its middle on Wild Marjoram in the garden. Long-tailed Tits have been absent from the garden for awhile but family parties can now be seen moving through the hedgerow.

This flood lagoon has been created as part of a new housing development on the outskirts of Kings Lynn. I was surprised by the amount of water in it, and by the variety of birds which have already made it their home #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds

The second half of August will see the peak period for autumn migration of Tree Pipit. Usually detected when calling in flight, they can occur across a range of habitats on migration #ukbirding

monitoring Sculthorpe Moor as well has engaged with the families there for Discovery Day. 56 birds were encountered:
5 Blackcap
9 Chiffchaff
21 Reed Warbler
4 Sedge Warbler
1 Whitethroat
plus 3 juvenile Kingfisher and 2 Marsh Tits
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Crane flocks are starting to return to WWT Welney for the autumn.

#Norfolkbirding

Early morning visitors.

Join us on 3rd September at 18:30 for our webinar, Curlews and Climate Change.

Chaired by Professor David Hill, we will be joined by Harry Ewing, Research Ecologist in the Wetland Ecology Team at the British Trust for Ornithology, and BTO Director of Science, James Pearce-Higgins.

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Colour ring reading at Snettisham today brought a mix of Bar-tailed, the usual Black-tailed Godwits, Knot, Turnstone and Mediterranean Gull, including one of ours from Scolt Head.
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This adult Swallow is very well used to people given where they choose to nest & seemed to be proudly showing off the growing brood while I had a few minutes alone with them in a hide NWT Cley Marshes today. 🥰
It only flew when startled by some noisy human arrivals! @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

This afternoon NWT Cley this Swan 🦢 family in a regular spot. I was amazed how small those wings are given their size! @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @swanwatchuk.bsky.social #Cygnets

The Wren family were out in the Wisteria this morning - three juveniles with an adult, that we could see....

Canada Goose and trend graph.

(1/) New theme alert! For the next few Wednesdays, we will be sharing BBS trends for some of our most familiar wetland birds. We start with Canada Goose, which increased by 129% across the UK between 1995 and 2023. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology