Holme Bird Observatory
for as little as 14p per day.
31st August 2026

Tawny Wave
Today’s bird highlights: 5 Greenshank, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Spoonbill on Broadwater and another 7 Spoonbill flying over, 30 Curlew flying over. On the sea: 2 Arctic Skua, 7 Gannet, 6 Sandwich Tern, 2 Common Scoter, 1 Fulmar.
Today’s moths and other insects:
12 Archer’s Dart, 9 Flounced Rustic, 12 Large Yellow Underwing, 2 Chevron Grass-moth, 2 Tawny Wave, 3 Small Mottled Willow, 2 Vine’s Rustic, 3 Beet Moth, 3 Common Grass-moth, 2 Rusty Dot Pearl, 1 Straw Underwing, 1 Pale Mottled Willow, 1 Admiral, 2 Small Heath, 1 Small White, 2 Common Blue and 1 Ruddy Darter dragonfly.
Norfolk Bird News from Rare Bird Alert
Norfolk 18+Little Stints Cley NWT on Simmonds’s Scrape at 1pm +2.Wood Sands c52.9591,1.0553 Viewed from c52.9580,1.0544 Park at c52.9545,1.0565
Norfolk Wryneck Blakeney Point still briefly in centre of the Hood at 12.56pm 52.9749,1.0011: Viewed from 52.9748,1.0014
Norfolk 3.Glossy Ibises Kelling Water Meadow still c52.9499,1.1163: Viewed from 52.95,1.1159
Norfolk 5.Little Stints Cley NWT on North Scrape c52.9609,1.0574
Norfolk Spotted Redshank Cantley beet factory c52.5692,1.5281. Sign in at security NR13 3SH then follow footpath SE along River Yare. Stay on permitted path, no other access
Norfolk 2.Black Terns flew west Blakeney Point at 12.45pm 52.9786,1.0004: Viewed from 52.9763,1
Norfolk 3.Little Stints (all juvs) Breydon Water at north end +6.Caspian Gulls Spotted Redshank c52.6089,1.6774
Norfolk Garganey drk Cley NWT from Babcock Hide +Spotted Redshank at 11.40am c52.9552,1.0758
Norfolk Wryneck West Runton still 11.10am at Laburnum Caravan Park near play 52.9406,1.2452: Park at 52.9412,1.2498; Viewed from 52.9405,1.2456
Norfolk Spotted Crake Titchwell RSPB still 11am from Island Hide tho elusive c52.9670,0.6046. Park at c52.9629,0.6063
Norfolk Honey Buzzard circled Holkham Freshmarsh again at 9.55am 52.9644,0.8146
Norfolk 3+Pied Flys Blakeney Point in plantation at 11.01am 52.9752,0.9759: Viewed from 52.9751,0.9762



