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birds of the heath norfolk birdlife and astronomy don t forget you can click on an image to enlarge it saturday 9 may 2026 a swift spot of gardening since linda was selling honey and wax wraps at a local farmers market i was marooned at home i decided to do a bit of garden maintenance cleaning out pond pumps watering tubs and weeding the lawn needless to say a camera was nearby and i was pleased to see and photo several groups of swifts kestrels are not common over the heath so a soaring male was good to see as was one of the local red kites we tend to choose unusual plants for the garden one of my picks was a drimys a hard to find species from south america this specimen has not flowered since we planted it four years ago so this spring s display was a surprise and delight posted by david bryant at 14 21 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 8 may 2026 monthly survey at hemblington church may 2026 just linda new susan and me today beautiful sunny morning with some decent birds the yellowhammer appeared after our 11 00am cut off so isn t on the list posted by david bryant at 14 09 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 7 may 2026 bee eaters linda had a hospital appointment this morning so i was hoping she wouldn t have to endure the usual two hour wait in the event she was home really quickly and we were soon off to hempstead to look for the reported flock of thirteen bee eaters amazingly they were present when we arrived and there was a decent place to park we enjoyed watching these beautiful birds albeit at about half a mile range before driving the short distance to friend kt s house it was without doubt the bees from the n dbka s nearby apiary that were providing lunch for the colourful visitors posted by david bryant at 15 14 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 6 may 2026 bittern at cley a short video i ve often seen bitterns in flight at cley but never had prolonged views like this posted by david bryant at 08 30 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 5 may 2026 rare treat bittern at cley norman brian and i visited cley for a morning s chat and birding no sign of the wryneck so we walked out to the centre hides amazingly they were completely empty two wood sandpipers on south pool and several common sands on whitwell a great white stalked the edges of simmonds best of all though was the small dark bittern that suddenly emerged in front of avocet hide allowing us our best ever views of the species at cley i whatsapped it straight away and we were soon joined by julian and many others our cue to leave interesting to see a huge flock of dunlin on pat s after tea and scones at the vc we took a quick look from bishop s before moving on to babcock hide just a few of the regular warblers and a single wheatear back to the east bank where a short sea watch added little tern to the year list while distant yellow wagtails were new for the other two last stop was a nearby heath where we all enjoyed hearing a couple of turtle doves purring away posted by david bryant at 16 31 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 3 may 2026 why can t they ever get it right this afternoon i settled down to watch the excellent film clear present danger at four points we shared a character s binocular views of the action and as seems almost always the case this is what we saw you can t help but wonder if anyone in the cinema industry has ever looked through a pair of binoculars if mine produced an image like this i d chuck them away and buy a new pair posted by david bryant at 18 34 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 2 may 2026 an 04 00 rise for a double dip since linda needed the car today i crawled out of bed at 04 00 and drove through the dawn and a beautiful moonset to buckenham in search of the pair of black winged stilts that had been reported the previous evening needless to say there was no sign of the stilts nor any wood sandpipers either just the usual marsh and reedbed species lots of cuckoos though both at buckenham and strumpshaw still a few wigeon and plenty of avocets at buck it was good to chat with blog reader mike from norwich and woodpecker specialist keith not much else on offer at the fen no barn owls but two booming bitterns and a few common terns posted by david bryant at 09 13 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 1 may 2026 flower moon tonight s full moon the first of two this month posted by david bryant at 22 23 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest last day of the holiday final day of our short break in sheringham after breakfast and clearing up we drove to cley one more time parking at the east bank car park a walk out to the sea in glorious sunshine gave us some more memorable moments yellow wagtails by the serpentine great white egret greenshank bearded tit and i m pretty sure a tree pipit we decided to visit hickling on the way home a mistake as it turned out since a wryneck was discovered on the path in front of the hangs soon after we left hickling added crane to the holiday list as well as distant views of two wood sandpipers on brendans courtesy of a friendly gent with a scope first dragonfly of the year was a hairy hawker posted by david bryant at 14 12 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom total pageviews pages comets my favourite blogs the ones i look at most days buy my book birds of the yare valley buy my other books my youtube channel my paranormal website photographic garden bird list apollo astronauts i ve met damselflies updated clearwing moths dragonflies updated butterflies updated 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