Over the past couple of weeks I have spent many hours in the field birding locally within an 8 to 10 mile radius of my house. Despite my attempts, the birding locally has been extremely slow with the best birds being Grey Wagtails, Yellow Wagtails, Little Owls and a single Hobby. What with the lack of anything interesting round here, a busy time at work and a hectic home life recently, myself and my birder's wife decided to go off to Norfolk for one night to get away from it all.
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| Spectacled Warbler |
So, Sunday morning we left at 6:45am and headed for Burnham Overy to twitch the long staying Spectacled Warbler, which for both us was a new UK tick but not a new World tick. It performed for a couple of minutes singing, just enough for me to obtain a couple of record shots. We then spent the rest of the day relaxing round the local area including a late afternoon visit to Titchwell. The local area gave us 3 Barn Owls, 2 Little Terns, 1 Marsh Harrier, Yellowhammers, Linnets, 1 Grey Partridge and several Red Legged Partridge. Titchwell was relatively quiet but gave great views of Cettis Warblers, Reed and Sedge Warblers, a family group of Bearded Tits, 2 Spotted Redshanks in breeding plumage, 1 Little Gull, Black Tailed Godwits, Avocets and a raft of Common Scoter on the sea.
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| Barn Owl |
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| Barn Swallow |
