What have you seen

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I've not done that side of Breydon for a few years, although that would be nearer for me and save me driving through Yarmouth.

From previous visits I have some pic's of BTG's, flock of 200 +.....and Golden Plovers  couple of thousand+, but today....empty skies......

The Suffolk website is playing up at the moment and I'm not keeping up with what is around.

Not much in the way of blue sky coming up in the next few days, so I will stick to my local patch.  The small reedbed, 20 minute walk from home has breeding Marsh Harriers, Kingfisher, simply loads of marsh type birds and I can sit there for a couple of hours and not see a soul.

Give it a few more weeks and the MH's will be sky dancing and displaying....can't wait.

Snook up on this yellowhammer, don't know who was more surprised, me or him!  

The sun returned to the west country today, so a trip to Greylake south of Glastonbury followed by a visit to Ham Wall to watch the starling mermeration was the order of the day.

The car park at Greylake was teeming with birds, male Chaffinch and female Corn Bunting.

Ham Wall reed beds were bathed in sunshine as we waited for the starlings while a Great White Egret stalked its prey.

I do hope the pic of the Starlings give some scale to the numbers, but this was a tiny percentage of the numbers, estimated at over 500,000.

Final pic taken as we returned to the car park as the setting sun lit the sky.

Lovely day out.

Goldfinch feeding this morning, picture taken through kitchen window

Lovely photos everyone, I enjoyed looking at them, thanks for sharing

I also saw the Hoopoe at Flamborough...I watched 2 people walking up and down searching for what I had no idea.....bit further along the road I saw on the back lawn the Hoopoe.  Did I shout to our searching birders 'is this what you are looking for'?  No......I just enjoyed it all to myself.

What a greedy little Greylag, I bet the guilt kept you up all night

Naw.......slept like a log.

If they had smiled and said 'good morning' as we walked past and shared what they were looking for, they would have gotten the call.

I always share any highlights with people near me, I just love to see their faces when they witness something special.

When I volunteer at Norwich Peregrine watchpoint during Spring, sharing info and pointing out these birds to anyone who happens to pass by is very enjoyable and they always leave smiling.

And......I volunteer with some lovely people!

I always try to share but some people are just anti everyone and everything.  Last year at Minsmere I ask a guy in a hide where about on the scrape the Yellow Legged Gull was (I didn't have my Scope) his reply just look for the yellow legs, He didn't come across as trying to be funny,  won't tell you what I thought of this.

Like you GL I just love to see people get a glimpse of something unusual.  I get excited about seeing fairly common species.

If I see a group of people looking in scopes/long lenses, I always strike up conversation and they are happy to share

GL - How long have you been a volunteer at Norwich Cathedral watch point? 

Quite a sad end to the events of last year at Norwich, how many chicks actually survived.

Is the aggressive female from Bath still in residence this year.

I must say I found the footage from the nest cam addictive, but it wasn't until days after the last chick left the nest that I caught up on the events.