Norfolk Birding News
Birding news for March 2013
Sunday 31 March 2013
Winterton - STORK sp. flew north over dunes at 9.45am + Common Crane.
Yarmouth - 2 Garganey at Bure park
Horsey - Great White Egret & male Hen Harrier.
Breydon - Rough-leg Buzzard, Jack Snipe & White wag.
Sheringham - Glaucous Gull.
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike.
Sea Palling - 3 juv Glaucous Gulls still, 2 Caspian Gulls & Velvet Scoter.
Buckenham - 2 Water Pipits.
Welney - 3 Common Cranes.
Kelling - 4 Pale bellied Brent Geese.
Aldeby pits - Bittern + Water Pipit.
Salthouse - Snow Bunting.
Sculthorpe - c150 Brambling.
Stiffkey fen - Hen Harrier.
Burnham Overy dunes - Pale Bellied Brent Goose & Hen Harrier.
Holme - Black-throated Diver & 4 Velvet Scoter.
Waxwings - Gt. Ryburgh(6), Norwich(22) by playhouse theatre & Fakenham(9).
Saturday 30 March 2013
Great Hockham - male Ring Ouzel still.
Stow Bedon - male Ring Ouzel.
Holme - 10 Crossbills in pines.
Sheringham - Glaucous Gull.
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike.
Sea Palling - 4 Glaucous Gulls still.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still on river Thet west of town.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper.
Breydon - White Wagtail.
Horsey - male Hen Harrier.
Waxwings - Gt. Ryburgh(6), Taverham(15), Norwich(18) by playhouse theatre & Stalham(11).
Friday 29 March 2013
Great Hockham - Ring Ouzel.
Winterton - Hooded Crow reported ?
Sheringham - Glaucous Gull.
West Runton - 2 Glaucous Gulls both juvs (including above?)
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike still + Hen Harrier.
Sea Palling - 4 Glaucous Gulls (3 juvs & adult) + adult Caspian Gull & Black Redstart.
Waxham - Glaucous Gull (juv same as above?)
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still on river Thet.
Stiffkey fen - 2 Spoonbills.
Norwich - 5 Waxwings by playhouse theatre.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper & 2 Crossbills.
Hunstanton - 2 Little Gulls.
Haddiscoe - Hen Harrier & SEO on Thopre marshes.
Waxham - 20 Cranes north of Brograve farm.
Lynford - Hawfinch.
Horsey - 2 SEO's
Thursday 28 March 2013
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike still + Hen Harrier.
Sea Palling - 4+ Glaucous Gulls (3+ juvs & 3rd winter), ad Caspian Gull, 5 Yellow-legged Gulls & 6+ Med Gull.
Thetford - 2 BLACK BELLIED DIPPERS still on river Thet.
Norwich - 12 Waxwings by playhouse theatre.
Titchwell - Long-tailed Duck & Hen Harrier.
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike again.
Sheringham - Glaucous Gull also past Overstrand.
Hopton - 20 Little Gulls & White Wag.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still on river thet.
Cley - 2 Spoonbills.
Norwich - 5 Waxwings by playhouse theatre.
Titchwell - 2 Yellow-legged Gulls.
Yarmouth - SEO along acle straight.
Acle bridge - 4 Common Cranes.
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike again.
Sea Palling - 4 Glaucous Gulls, Yellow-legged Gull, 3 Little Gulls & 7 Purple Sandpipers.
Gorleston - Little Auk & 19 Little Gulls.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER on river thet + 11 Waxwings.
Cley - Caspian Gull & 2 Spoonbills.
Taverham - 12 Waxwings on St. Edmunds rise opposite Junior school.
Stiffkey Fen - 2 Spoonbills (then flew over Morston).
Acle bridge - 2 Common Cranes.
Salthouse - 4 Pale Bellied Brent Geese & 3 Little Gulls.
Holme - 6 Little Gulls.
Monday 25 March 2013
Sea Palling - 3 Glaucous Gulls & Yellow-legged Gull.
Haddiscoe Island - 2 Rough-legged Buzzards still.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER on river thet.
Cley - Caspian Gull, 20 Little Gulls & Purple Sandpiper
Welney - Black-necked Grebe.
Gorleston - 3 Little Gulls.
Stiffkey - 2 Spoonbills.
Acle bridge - 6 Common Cranes.
Waxham - 16 Common Cranes near Brograve farm.
Sunday 24 March 2013
Sea Palling - 4+ Glaucous Gulls (near adult & 3+ juvs), 7 Little Gulls & 4 Purple Sandpipers.
Thetford - 2 BLACK BELLIED DIPPERS on river thet + 15 Little Gulls over Nunnery lakes.
Casiter - Glaucous Gull + 12 Little Gulls.
Welney - Black-necked Grebe.
Sheringham - 60 Little Gulls past.
Great Snoring - Wheatear.
Gorleston - 12 Little Gulls.
Breydon - Little Gull.
Hellesdon - 56 Waxwings at Reepham road/Heather ave. junction.
Acle bridge - 7 Common Cranes.
Haddiscoe Island - 2 SEO's
Saturday 23 March 2013
Thetford - 2 BLACK BELLIED DIPPERS now on river thet + 11 Waxwings.
Sea Palling - 2 Glaucous Gulls, Little Gull, Y-L Gull & 4 Purple Sandpipers.
Casiter - Glaucous Gull (same as above) + 12 Little Gulls.
Welney - Black-necked Grebe & 2 RC Pochards.
Gorleston - 4 Little Gulls.
Acle bridge - 3 Common Cranes.
Friday 22 March 2013
Thetford - 2 BLACK BELLIED DIPPERS now on river thet by 3 nun's bridges.
Haddiscoe Island - 2 Rough-leg Buzzards still.
Cley - 2 Little Ringed plovers, 2 Water Pipits & 4 Pale Bellied Brent Geese.
King's Lynn - 11 Waxwings flew over.
Norwich - 5 Waxwings in Hellesdon at Reepham/Overbury rd junction.
Taverham - 15 Waxwings flew over.
Titchwell - 3 White-fronted Geese, Hen Harrier & RC Pochard.
Thursday 21 March 2013
Thetford - 2 BLACK BELLIED DIPPERS now on river thet by 3 nun's bridges.
Breydon water - Glaucous Gull & 2 Rough-leg Buzzards circling, 16 White Wagtails & SEO.
Cley - Great White Egret flew east over reserve late afternoon.
Salthouse - 4 Bewick's Swans flew east.
Norwich - 45 Waxwings on Lawson road near Dyers arms pub.
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Haddiscoe island - 2 Rough-leg Buzzards still.
Weybourne - Cory's Shearwater reportedly flew past this morning?
Waxham/Sea palling - Glaucous Gull.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Acle bridge - 3 Common Cranes.
Norwich - 45 Waxwings on turner road.
Claxton marshes - 2 SEO's still.
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Cockley cley - juv WHITE TAILED EAGLE cirlced over mid afternoon then flew SSE.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Waxham - Glaucous Gull.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper & 4 Snow Buntings.
Thopre St Andrew - 15 Waxwings.
Titchwell - LT Duck, RC Pochard & 3 Spotshanks.
Thornham - 14 Twite & Greenshank.
Monday 18 March 2013
Sheringham - Sandwich Tern flew west.
Winterton - Black Redstart in south dunes.
Welney - Garganey & 3 Scaup.
Horsey - Glaucous Gull.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Taverham - 15 Waxwings.
Blakeney - Hen Harrier.
Warham Greens - 2 Hen Harriers.
Titchwell - Sandwich Tern offshore, Long-tailed Duck, Scaup, RC Pochard & 2 Spotshanks.
Holkham - Spoonbill.
Gt. Yarmouth - 7 Waxwings in asda car park.
Short-eared Owls - King's Lynn(4), Morston(2), Snettisham & Burnham Overy dunes.
Sunday 17 March 2013
Horsey - Glaucous Gull. (also at Caister, Waxham & Sea Palling)
Blakeney - Rough-leg Buzzard.
Thetford - 20 Waxwings.
Morston - SEO.
Titchwell - Hen Harrier.
Little Snoring - 12 Waxwings.
Stiffkey - Hen Harrier.
Saturday 16 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Titchwell - 6 Bottle nosed Dolphins past, 2 Purple Sandpipers, Hen Harrier, 3 Long-tailed Duck & 2 Spotshanks.
Horsey - Glaucous Gull.
Thorpe St Andrew - 37 Waxwings on Dussindale drive.
Buckenham - Water Pipit & Hen Harrier.
Holkham - 9 Crossbills.
Cley - Spoonbill, Purple Sandpiper & 14 Snow Buntings.
Welney - 2 Scaup & Hen Harrier.
Friday 15 March 2013
Sheringham/Salthouse - Glaucous Gull past.
Thorpe St Andrew - 58 Waxwings on Dussindale drive.
Norwich - 17 Waxwings on St williams way.
Cley - Spoonbill, Purple Sandpiper & Yellow-legged Gull.
Wolferton - Golden Pheasant.
Thursday 14 March 2013
Holme - 60 Snow Buntings.
Salthouse - 6 Snow Buntings.
Egmere - Hen Harrier.
Cley - Spoonbill & Scandanavian Rock Pipit.
King's Lynn - 2 SEO's.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Tottenhill GP's - Smew.
King's Lynn - 8 Waxwings.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper and reported Curlew Sandpiper?
Lynford - Mealy Redpoll.
Titchwell - Long-tailed Duck & 2 Spotshanks.
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Cley - Purple Sandpiper & 9 Snow Buntings.
Salthouse - 2 Snow Buntings.
Titchwell - LT Duck, RC Pochard & Spotshank.
Monday 11 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Titchwell - Long-tailed Duck.
Salthouse - 12 Snow Buntings.
Sunday 10 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Boughton fen - Great White Egret.
Haddiscoe island - Rough-legged Buzzard.
Drayton - 54 Waxwings.
Cley - 9 Snow Buntings.
Wolferton - Golden Pheasant.
Holkham - 3 Spoonbills.
Sheringham - Purple Sandpiper.
Saturday 9 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet & Ring-necked Parakeet by A11.
Marlingford - Great White Egret just west of Norwich again along river Yare.
Salthouse - 6 Snow Buntings.
Wolferton - Golden Pheasant.
Cley - Great Northern Diver past & 2 Spoonbills.
Titchwell - Water Pipit, Long-tailed Duck & 2 Spotshanks.
Friday 8 March 2013
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Cley - 2 Spoonbills & 2 Snow Buntings.
Holme - 35 Snow Buntings & SEO.
Titchwell - Long-tailed Duck.
Rackheath - 12 Waxwings.
Thursday 7 March 2013
Egmere - Great Grey Shrike in hedgerow TF896375 + Red Kite over.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Marlingford - Great White Egret just west of Norwich again along river Yare.
Wolferton - 2 Golden Pheasants.
Claxton marshes - SEO.
Cley - 2 Spoonbills.
Titchwell - Long-tailed Duck & RC Pochard.
Fakenham - 6 Waxwings
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Burston - juv WHITE TAILED EAGLE flew over just north of Diss.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Boughton fen - Great White Egret.
Haddiscoe island - Rough-legged Buzzard & SEO.
Cley - Spoonbill & Purple Sandpiper.
Breydon - Spotshank & Hen Harrier.
Lynford - 5 Hawfinches.
Titchwell - LT Ducks & 2 Spotshanks.
Barton Broad - Scaup.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Houghton park - WHITE TAILED EAGLE.
Framlingham Earl - Glaucous Gull flew north early morning.
Cley - Spoonbill & Purple Sandpiper.
Titchwell - 2 Spotshanks.
Monday 4 March 2013
Houghton park - WHITE TAILED EAGLE.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still by river thet.
Boughton fen - Great White Egret.
Haddiscoe island - Rough-legged Buzzard & 2 SEO's.
Wolferton - 2 Golden Pheasants.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper & Long-tailed Duck.
Salthouse - 5 Snow Buntings.
Breydon - 14 White-fronted Geese & 23 Bewick's Swans.
Taverham - 2 Firecrests.
Titchwell - Little Gull, Black-throated Diver, 8 LT Ducks & Spotshank.
Fakenham - 9 Waxwings.
Sunday 3 March 2013
Houghton park - WHITE TAILED EAGLE.
Haddiscoe island - Rough-legged Buzzard.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still near three nuns bridges & bridge pub.
Holkham - Rough-legged Buzzard again.
Lynford - Great White Egret on lynford water.
Bowthorpe - Great White Egret again on marshes in west Norwich.
Hickling - Great White Egret from stubbs mill + 2 male Hen Harriers.
Waxham - 22 Cranes near Brograve farm early evening.
Wolferton - 2 Golden Pheasants.
Salthouse - 14 Snow Buntings.
Martham - Smew.
Berney marshes - 167 White-fronted Geese, 50 Bewick's Swans & Spotshank.
Holme - Puffin moribund on beach & 2 Black-throated Divers offshore.
Chedgrave - 83 Whooper swans flew east.
Titchwell - Black-throated Diver, Red-necked Grebe, Velvet Scoter, 2 LT Ducks, RC Pochard & Hen Harrier.
Fakenham - 1+ Waxwing.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper, Long-taield Duck & Pale Belleid Brent Goose.
Sea palling - Purple Sandpiper.
Saturday 2 March 2013
Houghton park - WHITE TAILED EAGLE early morning only.
Haddiscoe island - Rough-legged Buzzard & 2+ SEO.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still near three nuns bridges.
Holkham - Rough-legged Buzzard again.
North Walsham - Rough-legged Buzzard flew north over.
Waxham - 40 Cranes near Brograve farm early evening.
Wolferton - 2 Golden Pheasants early morning.
Norwich - 150 Bewick or Whooper swans on marston marshes then flew east.
Surlingham - 250 Whooper & 2 Bewick's Swans over.
Burgh castle - 288 Bewick's Swans flew over + 3 SPotshanks.
Attleborough - 12 Waxwings.
Walcott - Purple Sandpiper
Fakenham - 9 Waxwings.
Titchwell - Black-throated Diver, Red-necked Grebe, 2 Slavonian Grebes, LT Duck, RC Pochard & Hen Harrier.
Anmer - Hen Harrier.
Breydon - 68 Bewick's Swans, SEO & 2 Spotshanks.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper & Black-throated DIver.
Sennowe hall - male Hen Harrier.
Friday 1 March 2013
Houghton park area - WHITE TAILED EAGLE still.
Haddiscoe island - 2 Rough-legged Buzzards & SEO.
Thetford - BLACK BELLIED DIPPER still near bridge pub.
Cley - Purple Sandpiper
Titchwell - 2 Slavonian Grebes, LT Duck, 3 Snow Buntings, RC Pochard & 2 Spotshanks.
Hickling - Great White Egret, 4 Cranes & male Hen Harrier from stubbs mill.