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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).

Sunday, 6 November 2011

6th November 2011

A rewarding seawatch between 07.00 - 11.00 produced the following all going north:

Brent Goose 110
Shelduck 420
Wigeon 570
Gadwall 3
Teal 310
Mallard 9
Pintail 18
Shoveler 1 South
Pochard 7
Eider 59
Long-tailed Duck 1
Common Scoter 26
Velvet Scoter 4
Goldeneye 7
Red-breasted Merganser 16
Red-throated Diver c20 mostly north
Gannet c50+
Great Crested Grebe 1 South
Oystercatcher 1 South
Avocet 2
Lapwing 8
Knot 35
Sanderling 2
Dunlin 275
Common Snipe 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Curlew 3
Great Skua 1 South
Black-headed Gull c30
Little Gull 3-4 feeding well off shore
Common Gull c5
Herring Gull
Greater Black-backed Gull 3
Kittiwake c10
Common Tern 1
Guillemot c5
Little Auk 2
Snow Bunting 16 South

There was also a Blackcap in the garden and a walk along the beach to Caister produced another Little Auk and an Arctic Tern.

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