After lots of effort recently (with bonuses including two Firecrests and a Nuthatch), the FBOG ringing team really excelled themselves today with an extraordinary, perhaps unique, occurrence…. the story starts last May, when two Lesser Whitethroats were ringed in the same session on Top Scrub. Both stayed to breed, and then, incredibly, both were retrapped […]
Today’s clear highlight was the Nuthatch trapped by the ringing team in the early afternoon in Top Scrub – a local rarity and a big surprise! Also in the same area were two Redpoll, five Brambling and four Lesser Whitethroats. The year’s first Little Ringed Plover dropped in a the Dams before heading east, while […]
A welcome southerly airflow produced lots of variety today, with a Hooded Crow high and north-west over North Cliff, a Merlin low and in the same direction, another Firecrest trapped by the ringing team in Top Scrub first thing, an Osprey north over the sea past the Gap and then over North Cliff late morning, […]
A full count along North Cliff produced 174 Puffins and 12 Red-throated Divers as well as a Wheatear and 172 Linnets; small numbers of grounded migrants again included single figures of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps in Top Scrub and elsewhere, with odd Willow Warblers, Swallows and Sand Martins, and a few Redwings and Fieldfares (a similar […]
A female Mandarin frequented the Dams this morning (where it spent much of it time attacking other birds substantially larger than itself). A total of seven Swallows and two Sand Martins moved through there, with the male Pochard, three Shelduck, two Mute Swans, 26 Wigeon, 15 Teal and five Chiffchaffs divided between there and East […]
Thick fog hampered visible migration watches this morning but a brief respite early on saw a Corn Bunting, two Bramblings and a Fieldfare among a few birds on the move at Reighton Sands. Later in the day, a firecrest was trapped and ringed in the Top Scrub, while two Shelduck, a male Pochard, five Chiffchaffs […]
Today’s highlights were a Ring Ouzel, three Swallows, four singing Chiffchaffs and a Redwing through at Hunmanby Gap, a Willow Warbler and a Swallow at Reighton Sands, a Stonechat on Carr Naze and a Sandwich Tern past the Brigg. Two Little Gulls went south on 6th, when a Black Redstart remained on Carr Naze and […]
A Firecrest was in Long Lane and later Top Scrub (probably yesterday’s bird relocating a few metres across the Country Park), a female Black Redstart remained on Carr Naze, at least eight Common Buzzards moved south through the area (in addition to six local birds in the skies at the same time), and a cream-crown […]
A Firecrest was reported from Arndale, a Willow Warbler was at the Tip, presumably the same two Black Redstarts were in the Carr Naze area, 15 Continental Robins and ten Redwings were in the Top Scrub area, a Fieldfare came in off, three Swallows were at the Dams (with two at East Lea and one […]
A male Ring Ouzel flew inland from the North Cliff this morning, while 10 Chiffchaffs (a significant increase) and four Redwings were in the Top Scrub area. Yesterday (1st), a pair of Black Redstarts were in the Rocket Pole Field area.