What have you seen

Another good day in North Norfolk despite the high winds.  Wheatear, Sparrow Hawk, Little Stints, Whimbrel, Ruff, Godwitts etc.  Stiffkey this afternoon saw 10 x Spoonbills, 25 x Little Egrets and a Great White Egret. 

Just had a walk and pleased to be rewarded with this little treat.

After a hard day sanding the garage door ready to paint while the van is in for service, took a late afternoon stroll along the Severn Estuary where there had been sightings of a Turtle Dove.

Not hard to find, and the bird was not at all spooked by my presence. It allowed me to sit very close as it fed constantly for about 20 minutes. I would have stayed longer but the wind was bitterly cold and I had left my coat in the car as the parking area was out of the wind. I should know by now.

The dove fed constantly until it suddenly hopped on the branch and sat motionless then looked up to keep an eye on what turned out to be a passing Peregrine.

Good photos Grey and Blue. Off to Germany on Saturday, hopefully there will plenty of migrants around.

Mr and Mrs OP amongst them.

Do you ever go home, i thought we were away a lot. Just a reminder that River Gwash take bookings from October if you are interested. I will be going at a better time next year.

Thanks Blue, this time I'm travelling alone and where I'm staying is on the South West migration route for cranes.  Thanks for the reminder for the 2018 Osprey photos.

We saw cranes flying over the Aude, a couple of weeks ago - many of them, in formation!  An amazing sight.

Hope you get to see some too, Oneputt.

We also watched about fifty vultures (mixed Griffon, Black, and Lammergier) near the cliffs at Bugarach about ten days ago.  Fifteen minutes after they left the cliffs there was nothing to see, so we were very lucky.

Forgot, we saw a south flying Osprey fishing on one of the rivers on the way back north last Thursday!  We hoped it was one of our 'Glaslyn Ospreys'!!

In our garden we have a Cornus Kousa  tree, Japanese dogwood, this year it is covered in knobbly red fruit. Apparently they are edible so I tried one the other day, it had a light peachy taste. But I will leave the rest for the birds! They like them more than me. Seems like a good year for fruits and berries. We'll be leaving the end of our apples for the birds too. 

just on this site i've seen green woodpeckers, red sqirrels, pied fly catchers, Red Deer as well as jays, tits, finches etc.  Not seen any Cranes yet but plenty of Canada Geese moving West

We have had a Moorhen chancng its luck wth our dog around our caravan most days