A morning stroll around
Whitlingham started with a female Bullfinch by the Little Broad, a Kestrel over the meadows and a Great Spotted Woodpecker nearby. Walking the river bank i saw many young fledgelings
including Reed Warbler,
Whitethroat and Lesser
Whitethroat.
From the bird hide i picked up my first
Great Black-backed Gull at
Whitlingham this year.
Thorpe Marshes
had little of note so i thought about heading home. I then heard a Cuckoo calling in the direction of
Whitlingham Woods and had to go investigate. I walked through the woods stopping near the pines to investigate a small flock of tits and in the same tree i also
found my first
Goldcrest on the patch this year. Stopping to see if i could still hear the Cuckoo i found a
Spotted Flycatcher, perched up in the
sparse pines. A new 'patch life' bird. Leaving the woods i sat on a bench by the river and
Cuckoo then appeared, flying across the river and over Thorpe Marshes, capping off a nice morning. An evening trip to
Cley Marshes NWT, failed to show the
Chilean Flamingos that had been present the previous, but a summer
plumage Spotted Redshank was nice to see, and from the
Visitor Centre mound a distant
Spoonbill was a year tick, but not the most
satisfying.
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