Holme Bird Observatory

It was a calm and cloudy morning so ideal for bird ringing. New birds were: 3 Goldcrest, 4 Blue Tit, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 1 Robin, 2 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Dunnock. I also retrapped 3 Sedge Warbler, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Cettis Warbler.

The moths were: 1 Bordered White, 1 Cinnabar, 8 Isotrias rectifasciana, 1 Crambus sp., 1 Common Swift, 2 Pyrausta despicata, 2 Garden Grass Veneer, 1 Mottled Rustic, 1 Minor sp. 1 Red-barred Tortrix, 1 Scoparia ambigularis.

Otherwise, I saw 1 Cinnabar and 2 Meadow Brown butterflies.

Bird highlights of today: 1 juvenile Spoonbill and a Shelduck family with 8 ducklings on Broadwater, 80 Black-tailed Godwit flying over the Obs, 3 juvenile Goldcrest ringed and 1 Tawny Owl calling.

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Norfolk Bird News from Rare Bird Alert

Norfolk Common Crane ad Rawhall still at Old Beetley at School Road Flash at 10.35am 52.7312,0.9074

Norfolk CASPIAN TERN ad Hickling Broad NWT till 10.40am at Brendan’s Marsh from viewing platform then flew NE over Stubb Mill 52.7385,1.602. Park at c52.7422,1.5948

Norfolk CASPIAN TERN ad Hickling Broad NWT still 10.15am at Brendan’s Marsh from viewing platform 52.7385,1.602. Park at c52.7422,1.5948

Norfolk CASPIAN TERN ad Hickling Broad NWT still 9.24am at Brendan’s Marsh from viewing platform 52.7392,1.6009. Park at c52.7422,1.5948

Norfolk Quail male singing Ringstead in barley field south of Thornham Road at 7.45am c52.9400,0.5470

Norfolk CASPIAN TERN ad Hickling Broad NWT till 8.11am at Brendan’s Marsh then flew towards Rush Hill Scrape 52.7392,1.6009. Park at c52.7422,1.5948

Norfolk CASPIAN TERN Hickling Broad NWT again at Brendan’s Marsh at 7am c52.7397,1.6013 Park at c52.7422,1.5948