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Day 18. Bird amazement.
Today I saw a buzzard trying to kill a hawk. The buzzard got out of puff and landed in the field so the hawk went and attacked the buzzard and then the buzzard got enough puff and flew into the woods.… more →
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A Falcon with a taste for snazy footwear
wrote 1 day ago: We watched a wonderful display at the weekend. On a bright warm day among a group of around half a d … more →
Warbling over Scotland
wrote 3 days ago: On last week’s Scottish Birding Tour to Speyside and the Isles of Skye we heard the uplifting call o … more →
Scratchy Residents
wrote 5 days ago: A Whitethroat and his intended have taken up residence aside a pair of Lesser Whitethroats at Falcon … more →
You can run but you can’t hide
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wrote 1 week ago: Seen on one of our tours at the beginning of the month. Heineken don’t do Pigeons … but if they did … more →
Mallards on the move
wrote 1 week ago: There were a lot of superlatives being heard on one of the tours last week as we stood and watched f … more →
Notice me
wrote 1 week ago: We were sat skywatching the other week; waiting for raptors to take to the air, or whatever else may … more →
Phylloscopus delight
wrote 2 weeks ago: The cold spring winds managed to kill off a few of the garden plants and stunted the growth of sever … more →
Are they or aren’t they?
wrote 2 weeks ago: I was doing a job in South Norfolk on Friday and was travelling down the Acle Straight into Great Ya … more →
Travellers Rest
wrote 3 weeks ago: The local water was heaving with hirundines the other morning. A swirling, diving, swooping mass of … more →
Perched Songster
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wrote 3 weeks ago: As we sat under a hawthorn this week a bird moved up the far side of the bush sat atop and sang his … more →
“Be a blue headed”
wrote 3 weeks ago: We’ve talked before on Letter from Norfolk about the complex family of the flava Wagtails. There are … more →
Hunter
wrote 3 weeks ago: Sat in the dunes was a canny little girl waiting in the sunshine for the first migrants. Weak with t … more →
Early out of bed
wrote 1 month ago: After the very windy day on Thursday it was odd’s on to nothing we would have a few new birds on the … more →
A Pleasant Pheasant
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wrote 1 month ago: In the past I’ve alluded to the fact that some birds we encounter in the UK are not officially recog … more →
Like a cork out of a bottle
wrote 1 month ago: Today it was spring. Blue skies, a warm southerly wind at last and birds arrived … in their hundreds … more →
2nd Bite at the Cherry
wrote 1 month ago: It’s not often that lightning strikes twice in the same place but earlier this week it did! We stood … more →
A shear delight
wrote 1 month ago: The other month a Cory’s Shearwater was reported off Sheringham in Norfolk. Great birds Shearwaters; … more →
Indulgent
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wrote 1 month ago: A little indulgence took me back again the other week to photograph the otters that have been showin … more →
Gullfest
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wrote 1 month ago: The wind was so cold I lost the feeling in my hands earlier this week. On the open beach the relentl … more →
