A windy day at the Obs, with not much around. The Highlight has been a few Crossbills around in the Pines again and still large numbers of waterfowl on the broad water.

I filled up the feeders, and they were quickly covered in a flurry of hungry Blue Tits, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Chaffinches, Greenfinches and Goldfinches, as I walked past later on a Moorhen was eating the seed which has spilled to the ground.  It’s nice to see the feed being eaten, even if it is going down very fast!

Molly Brown – Seasonal Assistant

NORFOLK BIRD NEWS FROM RAREBIRD ALERT

Norfolk 5+Velvet Scoters (all fem/juv.drks) Kelling still on sea off Kelling Hard 52.9543,1.1209. Viewed from 52.9519,1.1202

Norfolk 2.Bewick’s Swans Ludham airfield c52.7192,1.5509

Norfolk no sign of drk.Ferruginous Duck Filby Broad by midday c52.6636,1.6283

Norfolk 4+Hawfinches Lynford Arboretum still at paddocks c52.5103,0.6805. Park at 52.5163,0.6844

Norfolk Black-throated Diver reported Brancaster Staithe c52.9668,0.6692

Norfolk 50.Bewick’s Swans Welney WWT early morning c52.5278,0.2775. Park at 52.5268,0.2786

Norfolk Velvet Scoter y’day Gorleston c52.5707,1.7339

Norfolk 2.Water Pipits y’day Haddiscoe Marshes c52.5249,1.6123