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NORWICH: City centre Kingfisher

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27th February 2013 A Kingfisher on the River Wensum was a nice sight early morning. It flew east along the river as seen from Fye Bridge. ...

WHITLINGHAM: City Pochard & showy Water Rail

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23rd February 2013 There is only so much time you can spend at home waiting for the Vatican to reply to your job application, so I gave u...

THORPE MARSH: Reed Buntings return

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19th February 2013 Around this time last year Thorpe was enjoying a good run of waders, albeit in frozen conditions, so I decided to av...

THETFORD: Otter time

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17th February 2013 Cathy has wanted to see an Otter for some time, and as she doesn't particularly like Strumpshaw (probably the be...

WHITLINGHAM: Geese arrive and a couple of Nuthatches

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16th February 2013 A small flock of geese on Whitlingham meadows were worth checking out (albeit more for hybrids than tag-along wild g...

NORWICH: Still there...

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12th February 2013 Knowing some local birders hadn't managed to connect with the Shag yesterday I made a slight detour on my way to w...

NORWICH: Unexpected Phalacrocorax

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Normally I'm against the unnecessary use of latin names where English ones will suffice, but I don't want to attract unwanted googl...
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WHITLINGHAM: Feb counts, Redpolls and moss

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9th February 2013 Some unspectacular winter wildfowl counts today, with 104 Tufties, 92 Pochard, 134 Coot and 263 Black-headed Gulls th...
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WHITLINGHAM: Lots of Pochard & pale Egyptian Goose

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3rd February 2013 Having missed out on a flock of Cranes flying over the previous day, I had high hopes for the day. Looking out from t...

WHITLINGHAM: A better look at the Slav Grebe

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26th January 2013 A surprisingly frozen Whitlingham today, with only isolated areas of open water. One of these is always near the Visi...

NORWICH: Wensum Woodcock

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22nd January 2012 I have been hoping that the cold weather would push a scarce bird onto the Wensum nearby (perhaps Goosander?), but ha...

NORWICH: Snowy Rosary Cemetery

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20th January 2012 My Foot It list has never really taken off, so I decided to return to Rosary Cemetery to have another look for Nuthat...

WHITLINGHAM: Bittern-tastic

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18th January 2012 Bitterns occur annually at Whitlingham, but they seldom stay long. My only previous sightings was of one flying eastw...

WHITLINGHAM: Duck decrease and a Conifer Mazegill sp.

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12th January 2013 More local birding, and I had hopes that the cooler weather would have brought in some more ducks. Not even necessari...

WHITLINGHAM: Bullfinch & Goldeneye

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7th January 2013 I had considered a long walk into the farmland around Caistor St Edmund today, but decided against it. Instead I heade...