Over the years I have purchased quite a lot of my optical equipment from the specialist shop near here in Glandford called Cley Spy. They have a good outdoor viewing area for testing out binoculars, telescopes and lenses, and when I heard, a couple of days ago, that they had something rather special on view …
Brenda had a day off today, so we decided to grab a couple of hours in the afternoon and have a walk at the RSPB reserve at Titchwell. It’s fair to say that it’s probably the reserve we have both visited the most over the years: I think we both first went there together in …
Well today was the first day of the year on which I didn’t get out of the house. Brenda had a succession of meetings as well, so neither of use did any wildlife watching 🙁 So no new species for the day I’m afraid (still no moths!) and I got to the point I alluded …
The weather today was pretty dreadful, and I had a lot of work to do for ESTA (see https://estastrings.org.uk) including collating articles for the next issue of their Arco magazine. But by about 2pm I needed a break and the weather had cleared….a bit! So I headed out to Stiffkey and walked west along the …
Having spent a morning on emails and other admin I decided to take a couple of hours off and visit the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Cley. One reason for this was that there has been a bird seen there for the last few weeks which I have never seen – a long-billed dowitcher. Is …
Today was always going to be limited for wildlife viewing, as I was conducting a workshop on Tchaikovsky’s amazing 6th Symphony in Ely with Ely Sinfonia. So I set off this morning to drive to Ely thinking “do I write a blog if there’s nothing to report?”. This has been on my mind: A large …
I thought that I might not go out at all today: A combination of work to do and bad weather! However at about 2pm the weather cleared a little and so I decided to venture forth to Brancaster, where a rare Hume’s warbler has been seen for several weeks. This is a bird from the …
Today was an admin day by and large, but I did manage three new bird species in and around our garden: Long-tailed tits seem to like the hedge that runs down the outside of one edge of the garden – on the path of the old railway line into Wells. And we have a couple …
Brenda and I did separate wildlife spotting today: I managed a walk from Holkham village back to Wells, via the beach, whilst Brenda was able to find some flowers nestling within Holkham churchyard when she was there clearing some of the Christmas decorations from the church. Brenda’s flower bit! “Three more hardy flowers today, interestingly, …
Today was a work day but we managed a walk at the pools just east of Wells-next-the-Sea just before sunset, which – as we expected – gained us several bird species common in this area; though there are plenty more to be seen yet! Brenda found daisies in flower near our house and a lone …
