Hornet and House Sparrow

During Sunday evening 10 September, a Hornet was briefly seen in the back garden by the Pagoda then the Mountain Ash at 7.10pm before flying off. meanwhile a House Sparrow (locally rare) flew from the front garden to my neighbours garden opposite.

Ness Point, North Beach & Netposts goodies

On Saturday 9th September, I drove to ness point and walked up to the platform and immediately saw an immature Razorbill around 150 metres out on the sea, it appeared to be swimming south, later I saw a Guillemot about 100 metres out but that swam strongly north. I walked down to the Wind Turbine yard and saw a male Sparrowhawk perched on the seawall opposite the yard, I retrived my camera but after that the bird was gone so I walked over to the SLp yard and saw a Peregrine flying away south, unsurprisingly no sign of any Black Reds. Roger drewup and then we resaw the Razorbill this time a lot closer in but it soon disappeared too. Checking the Netposts from the ridge, I saw 2 Whinchat a rusty one and a pale bird. I did a good scan but couldn't see anything else. I then drove to Swimming pool road, parked up and saw the Razorbill again swimming north along the sea a groyne's length out. At 2.30pm news broke that Rob H had found an RB Shrike at the Netposts, so I drove down and the bird, a fine immature Red- backed Shrike, was seen perched in the thistle amongst the ragwort and then it flew over to the fence line near the seawall. TBC

Yellow Wagtail heard over the garden

On Thursday 7th September at 7pm, I heard a Yellow Wagtail call several times flying south over the back garden.

Interesting Moths

On 4 September, I saw a Dewick's Plusia at Rob H's, on the evening of the 5th September in our bathroom this Boxtree Moth was rescued from flying around the flame of the bathroom light bulb and a rather scary and massive House Spider the size of my hand, seen too.

Wryneck in flight

On Friday 1st September at around 6pm, now having to park what is euphemistically called Kessingland Beach car park (actually its 1/4 mile from the beach as there is no closer parking I walked the full mile south of Kessingland sluice and was dismayed to see a dog walker just further ahead. The dog was completely out of control racing here there and everywhere, diving into the River Hundred, and then when I arrived it flushed a family of Stonechats and the Wryneck off the path which dived into a bramble bush just 30 metres north west of the Pumping station. Unsurprisingly it didn't reappear which was extremely disappointing. A family of 5 Stonechats, 2 adults and 3 immatureswas nice as was a Whinchat that was seen briefly perched up too.

Dunlin flew over the A47

On Friday 1st september, I was very surprised to see a Dunlin fly very low south over the A47 jkust south of the Capt Manby's Gorleston roundabout whilst driving home.

Bernie Marsden RIP

Very saddened to hear of the untimely passing of former Whitesnake guitarist Bernie Marsden, a very sad day.