30th October 2012 A reminder to everyone that this week is the Norwich Beer Festival! This year there aren't many bird-related beer...

29th October 2012 Cathy & I went to Winterton in the afternoon for a walk around the south dunes, hoping to catch up with any migra...

28th October 2012 A third (and final!) visit to St Andrew's car park in the city once again failed to produce any Ring Ouzels, and ...

26th & 27th October 2012 This week has been rather frustrating for the most part. There were amazing influxes of birds on Monday an...

21st October 2012 It actually felt like finding a decent bird was a possibility today, with some autumnal weather and the calls of Skyl...

20th October 2012 We hopped over the border into Suffolk to Oulton Broad, where a Slavonian Grebe was showing very well. Despite its cl...

13th October 2012 This week has seen the arrival of a number of flocks of Pink-footed Geese, so today's target was to catch up with o...

6th October 2012 With a bit of free time in the morning I decided to go up to Mousehold Heath and look for any migrating birds. In hind...

Several recent developments may be of interest to regular readers of this blog: 1) The Norfolk Records Committee have launched their o...

1st October 2012 On my way home from work I got a phone call from Cathy to say that she had seen the local pair of Egyptian Geese at Pu...

30th September 2012 Not many birds at Thorpe today, the resident Stock Doves being the only bird of note. Recent rain had raised the water...

23rd September 2012 With some easterly winds for the first time this autumn, we decided to have a look for some migrants. I decided on ...

23rd September 2012 We had a bit of a sea watch and some chips at Walcott on Saturday evening, in case there were any lingering Leach'...

22nd September 2012 With autumn seemingly arriving I went down to Whitlingham to look for some inland migrants. A cool wind seemed suit...

w/e 21st September 2012 A few miscellaneous observations from this week as summer continues to transition into autumn. Early in the wee...