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You have found us. We are a secret group of crack birders who have turned our backs on the machismo, corruption, and backstabbing greed that constitute today's birding scene, and have united together to follow the True Path of non-competitive, collaborative and generally lovely birding-as-meditation-and-spiritual-growth. Consequently, we never see anything. Birds that land right in front of our noses, and which we can identify with our observer book, are written about here. Oh, and they have to be seen in - or from - the parish of Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, or on the walk round past East Somerton Church ruins and up the concrete track to Winterton Holmes (because it's a nice walk which we all do).

Saturday 10 October 2009

10 October 2009

Hundreds of Redwings tumbled out of the grey sky and streamed inland this morning.  Robins seem to have arrived in fair numbers, and some Skylarks were moving.  Still a few Swallows about, and a Shoveller, a parish rarity which came in off the sea, did a u-turn and flew back out again, has proved once more that we are in the Year of the Rare Commons.  Later in the morning our friend Terry had two Firecrests and a Ring Ouzel, and Grey Wagtail was present near the pub.


As part of the early testing of this blog I want to upload a picture, so what better than our undocumented Semi-collared Flycatcher from 16th September last year ;)


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