A high pressure, giving way to a low pressure system has brought some nice easterly winds to east Norfolk.
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| Surface Pressure Chart for 23 Sept 2012 |
I've been out to the coast over the weekend in the hope to find something that equaled Holme's good haul of migrants (Barred + Yellow-browed Warblers and RBF), but the bushes of east Norfolk remain empty of migrants, bar the occasional Blackcap and Chiffchaff. Seawatching, something I don't tend to do a lot of in east Norfolk, has been pretty good though. There's been a good southerly passage of Gannets all weekend as well as lots of Red-throated Divers moving south. An hours seawatching from Waxham on Saturday evening provided a nice Grey Phalarope, feeding for a while offshore before moving off north. After that I headed down to Nelson Head, making use of the lovely light to snap a few Grey Seals and Sanderling (below).
Finding very little (nothing!) in the Nelson Head area this morning (Sunday) I headed back to Waxham to do a couple hours of seawatching. Although the actual number of birds wasn't great, the variety was. Within 40 minutes of obs., I'd seen 4 species of skua. A couple of Bonxies moved south followed by a lovely sub-adult (second-summer I think) pale phase Pom Skua, which spent a few minutes loafing around close inshore before moving off north. It was an interesting looking bird, with a pretty good dark cap, quite a bit of barring down the flanks and on the chest (forming a strong breast band) and a pale ginger nape. About 10 minutes later a dark juvenile Long-tailed Skua flew south. It was so close inshore that almost missed it, just catching it fly through the bottom of my scope field of view. Long-tailed Skua is one of those birds that when you see a skua sp and wonder "is it, isn't it", then it's almost certainly an Arctic Skua. When you see a Long-tail, there's not really much confusion. And to top everything off, a couple of Arctic Skuas flew north, pursuing some Sandwich Terns.
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Sanderling, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Sanderling, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
A high pressure, giving way to a low pressure system has brought some nice easterly winds to east Norfolk.
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| Surface Pressure Chart for 23 Sept 2012 |
I've been out to the coast over the weekend in the hope to find something that equaled Holme's good haul of migrants (Barred + Yellow-browed Warblers and RBF), but the bushes of east Norfolk remain empty of migrants, bar the occasional Blackcap and Chiffchaff. Seawatching, something I don't tend to do a lot of in east Norfolk, has been pretty good though. There's been a good southerly passage of Gannets all weekend as well as lots of Red-throated Divers moving south. An hours seawatching from Waxham on Saturday evening provided a nice Grey Phalarope, feeding for a while offshore before moving off north. After that I headed down to Nelson Head, making use of the lovely light to snap a few Grey Seals and Sanderling (below).
Finding very little (nothing!) in the Nelson Head area this morning (Sunday) I headed back to Waxham to do a couple hours of seawatching. Although the actual number of birds wasn't great, the variety was. Within 40 minutes of obs., I'd seen 4 species of skua. A couple of Bonxies moved south followed by a lovely sub-adult (second-summer I think) pale phase Pom Skua, which spent a few minutes loafing around close inshore before moving off north. It was an interesting looking bird, with a pretty good dark cap, quite a bit of barring down the flanks and on the chest (forming a strong breast band) and a pale ginger nape. About 10 minutes later a dark juvenile Long-tailed Skua flew south. It was so close inshore that almost missed it, just catching it fly through the bottom of my scope field of view. Long-tailed Skua is one of those birds that when you see a skua sp and wonder "is it, isn't it", then it's almost certainly an Arctic Skua. When you see a Long-tail, there's not really much confusion. And to top everything off, a couple of Arctic Skuas flew north, pursuing some Sandwich Terns.
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Grey Seals, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Sanderling, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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| Sanderling, Nelson Head, Norfolk |
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