My walk to the beach today was
rather later due to the thick fog but as I entered the beach road there were
clearly plenty of thrushes and I saw both Redwing ad Fieldfare within a few
yards of the main road. As I continued
down the road the number of thrushes increased and there were clearly hundreds
present but only a fraction were visible and Redwings were clearly outnumbering
Fieldfares. When I reached the beach I
decided to walk west towards Little Eye and continued to see numerous thrushes
and found three Ring Ouzels and two Stonechats at the far end of Little Eye.
I found another Ring Ouzel at
the eastern end of Little Eye and I continued walking to Granborough Hill to
the east were I saw another Ring Ouzel and three Brambling before returning to
the cottage.
My oldest granddaughter, Clia
and Paul were going out for a walk and I suggested that we walked down a
footpath that led to Kelling Quags. The
walk along the track was quite wet and muddy but there were plenty of thrushes
, particularly Redwing and I did find another two Brambling and a
Stonechat. We walked along the beach
back to Salthouse and birds appeared to be everywhere with more thrushes and
Brambling.
I went out again in the
afternoon and had further views of two Ring Ouzels and a Lapland Bunting flew
over and there was now a noticeable increase in Song Thrush and particularly
Robins.
Whilst there was nothing too
rare found at Salthouse it was exciting birding and apparently an exceptional
fall.
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