Overy Marshes
Sunrise over Overy Marshes
Pinkfeet in their hundreds flying out to feed.
A lone Curlew (Numenius arquata) close in. 
A woodcock flew out just at the bottom of the boardwalk
Sanderling, Brent, Turnstone, Cormorants and a variety of Gulls out on the sand.
&
The Bouys
An Isabelline Wheatear was picking about on the grass.
A distant Isabelline Wheatear (Oenanthe Isabellina)
and a very confiding
Northern Wheatear
(Oenanthe oenanthe)
on the tide line
on the way back.
With grateful thanks to the photographer who found it.
Salthouse
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
The light changed so quickly this morning. From very dark to this last photo when the sun came out and bathed Salthouse.
The Wheatear liked this area this mronig.
Perching on the pole tops and eyeing the flies.
Dashing off, up and around - putting on a superb display.
A little bit of preening.
Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe deserti)
Managed to get a little bit closer today hence the number of photos.
he just wouldn't trun and look at us all standing on the shingle. He just focussed on the flies.
Sea Aster seed heads (Tripolium pannonicum)
The whole marsh resplendent in these fluffy seed heads at the moment.
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) caught with its mouth full.
Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Almost falling apart from the rigours of the year.
Comma (Polygonia c-album)
and
a
Long -tailed Duck
from the
Babcock Hide
Salthouse
Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
Desert Wheatear (Oenanthe derserti)
Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Trimingham
From Trimingham looking towards Sidestrand
A lone Brent - Branta bernicla on the clifftop
Easington
Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
Isabelline Wheatear - (Oenanthe isabellina)
Just down there between the two fences scuffling about in the willow herb, creeping thistle and the odd sycamore sapling
an accentor that has made ornithological history this autumn.
Siberian Accentor - Prunella montanella
Well worth reading is the weekly Rare Bird Alert Weekly round up
and
the previous one
Dutch Birding has an article about this incredible influx of Siberian Accentors
59 to date
Update: Unprecedented influx of Siberian Accentors in Europe
The real deal from Shetland Wildlife
And an analysis of the winds that brought them from
Ornithomedia.com
Cromer
Great black - backed Gull (Larus marinus) & Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Blakeney Point
A few Redwing exploding out of the sueda
One Redpoll
One adult Peregrine in the sunshine out on the sand
and
one juvenile chasing pigeons in the dunes
A Marsh Harrier
and
a
Kestrel
A superb windswept day.
Garden Drove
October Sunshine
The soft high peep of Goldcrests
as they flit through the sycamore leaves
delicately picking here and there.
A skylark practicing for next spring.
An explosion of Redwing freshly arrived from
Norway as they leave the berries behind.
Soft threads glinting in the sunshine from the
myriad of gossamer trails.
and the mellow hum of the flies and wasps
on the ivy.
As Mrs May and Mr Davis trample
on parliamentary sovereignty.
and keep telling us that
4%
was overwhelming
and
we
mustn't complain
those who were to
remain.
Add insult to injury 48% of the UK population are now being demonised by
the
Daily Mail
(Daily Mail 12/10/16)
In the original vote to join the EU there was a clear majority to join
67.23 % to 32.77%
on a
64.62% turnout
But notice the level of demonisation.
This is Civil War
Salthouse
Mallard - Anas platyrynchos
Totally resplendent in his fresh autumn plumage.
Teal - Anas crécca
Such a delicate variety of feather patterning.
Little Grebe - Tachybaptus ruficolis
So handsome and delicate.
Cute in fact.
Wigeon - Anas penelope
Unmistakable white wing flashes of the males against the grey sky.
Holkham Pines
Scot's Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Radde's Warbler somewhere in here. (Phylloscopus schwarzi)
Common Reed (Phragmites australis)
Holm Oak (Quercus ilex)
At least 3 Yellow Browed Warblers
Brambling a plenty of flying over
and
goldcrests
Cromer
It was in here first thing yesterday morning.
Not to be seen though.
Responded well to a recording
but
I forgot to switch my microphone
on.
Fleeting glimpses in the sycamore
and gorse later in the morning.
First thing this morning it was in the bramble and willow herb
just here.
Beautiful
Perched on a bramble
and
reached for the sky.
The recorder was switched on this morning.
Garden Drove
East Hills from the Northern end of Garden Drove
Can you just see the flash of red as the Redstart flew along the hedge line.
A whisper of Goldcrests flew along the track
dinking about in the sycamores overhead.
to the accompaniment
of
one
"tseeweest"
superbly viewed in the sycamore.
But
not the
Red Breasted Flycatcher
of
which two turned up later.
Holkham Pines
Long Tailed Tit - Aegithalos caudates
Razor Shells - Ensis arcuatus
Alexander Mcqueen - 2001 for Voss
In McQueen’s Words
“My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful,
I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness
on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness
was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.”
WWD, September 28, 2000
From
Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty
A more recent use of razor shells by Norfolk artist Liz McGowan.