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, 16 October 2010
16th October 2010
A couple of hours seawatching this morning produced lots of birds, the majority of which were well out and heading south very fast. For me the highlight was a relatively close in Manx Shearwater.
The only "little bird" of note was a Brambling in the village.
Hi! I couldn't find another way to send you my sightings from 16th Oct so hopefully this will work?! Between 1-2pm seawatching from the beach car park I saw the following. Juv Sabine's Gull (north at 1.40pm), Arctic Skua, drake Eider, 3 Kittiwake, 99 DB Brent Geese, 20 Pintail, 29 Wigeon, 8 RT Diver and 4 Guillemot. I live in Herts but my dad lives in Norfolk and the dunes are my adopted local patch! Ian Bennell.
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Hi! I couldn't find another way to send you my sightings from 16th Oct so hopefully this will work?! Between 1-2pm seawatching from the beach car park I saw the following. Juv Sabine's Gull (north at 1.40pm), Arctic Skua, drake Eider, 3 Kittiwake, 99 DB Brent Geese, 20 Pintail, 29 Wigeon, 8 RT Diver and 4 Guillemot. I live in Herts but my dad lives in Norfolk and the dunes are my adopted local patch! Ian Bennell.
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