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Migration Watch
Updates: 02/11
Latest Sightings, What's In Norfolk & The Outlook
ilyabirding@hotmail.co.uk
Apologies for the lack of updates of late. Was abroad and snowed under with work.
Anyway welcome
to my birding webpages. A ramshackle, collection of latest sightings,
gen on where to go birding, predictions of what's going to turn
up and where, how rare it's looking and a bit of gen on what good
birds are in Norfolk at the moment (particularly the stuff that
isn't making it to Birdguides and RBA).
NB I've nicked a few photos for this
site. E-mail me if
you want me to remove them.
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Updated: 02/11/2008
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Archived sightings
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What's
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The Red-flanked Bluetail at Muckleburgh Hill, the Black-bellied Dipper at Glandford and the AGP at East Harling (along with a Dotterel) all continue to show well (2/11). Also a good haul of Sab Gulls, Pallas’s Warblers, Firecrests etc etc. Older rares include Olive-backed Pipit and Black-throated Thrush at Holme on the 31/10 and a Fudge Duck at Lynford Gravel Pipit on the 27/10.
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Aimed to give you a picture of what’s going on, but precise locations censured to prevent the Muppets arriving on masse. Three Firecrests, 10 Black Redstarts and Pallas’s Warbler near Eccles on the 31/10 (also one on the land-sea interface somewhere up north;-), a Yellow-browed Warbler and Sabines Gull near Paston on 2/11. Also a Great Grey shrike at Hickling and a Red-backed Shrike near Paston earlier in the week.
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Sustained easterlies or north-easterlies for most of the week should see more arrivals opf classic late Autumn scarce and good
seawatching.
Weather (02/11/2008):
Fairly strong north-easterlies on Monday, veerying easterly in the south of the country and dropping in strength.
Picking-up a bit on Thursday and then dropping and veering southerly on Friday. High pressure over Northern Europe for most of the week. A big temperature drop on Thursday
over Scandinavia. Less high-grade and less Sib associated, but still possible is a Cattle Egret. Seems to be another arrival of them this year.
Sites to visit:
Anywhere along the coast with bushes. The east should see the best of it on Monday and Tuesday, but the North on Wednesday and Thursday
High-grade (unlikely):
Tegmalm's Owl is still on the cards. Dusky Warbler and Hume's Warbler are the other likely high-grade.
The Oive-backed Pipit (another classic late Autumn rare) has already turned up, but another isn't unlikely, nor indeed is another Red-flanked BLuetail given the two turning-up
in Kent today.
Medium-grade (possible):
Another trickle of Pallas's Warblers. A few more good things on the sea: Grey Phals are the most likely.
Low-grade (likely):
Continued arrivals of eared-owls. A good time to listen for overhead Lap Buntings. A few
Little Auks on the Sea and a few Pom Skuas.
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Birding
in Norfolk |
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Under development. More sites to be added
soon.
This section isn't really aimed at novice birders
or pager oggling twitcher. Nothing again novuice birders
per se, provided they're willing to bit of groundwork
before twitching, but most of the sites suggested
here are quite difficult birding. They are unlikely to
produce very much of interest unless you know your way
around a phyllosc's coverts and may even result in severe
injury and death by drowning unless you can read a tide-timetable
better than Alex Lees. On the plus
side, most of the sites offer the best chance of actually
finding birds before anybody else does before you, can
be done by public transport, are not that well-known and
although long-walks can be broken-up into shorter stages
if necessary. Click on the list below to find out more.
(1)
Berney / Halvergate Marshes & Breydon Water
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Migration Watch |
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The daily (almost) lowdown on what's going on at the Observatories so
that you can predict what's likely here
Bringing you an up-to-date summary of what's going on at
Landguard,
Dungeness,
Spurn,
Fair Isle and
Portland Bill. Also gen from
Christiansø (Denmark),
Helgoland (Germany) and
Falsterbo (Sweden).
The sites outside Britain give a good clue as to how active migration is further east, should those easterlies blow. For most of the sites only the good stuff is reported,
but some dross from Languard and Dungeness is also reported so that a local falls can be predicted.
Click here to get a summary list.
Links to the observatories
are at the bottom of the page.
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