tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post8433699005022649551..comments2023-08-18T02:31:53.162-07:00Comments on The Breckland Birder: Burnham Overy Dunes, North Norfolk (with Richard Farrow)The Breckland Birderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00203400040384205222noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post-24468286753923798212015-10-21T20:17:10.732-07:002015-10-21T20:17:10.732-07:00Thank you very much Tim, it certainly was a good d...Thank you very much Tim, it certainly was a good day to go coast bound.<br />Once again Tim, as you so often have done when commneting on my posts, it would seem that we have similar mindsets given our appreciation of common species. I cannot understand how that other birder we met felt that there was nothing exciting about. The sheer numbers of Goldcrests kept me and Richard entertained as much as any rarity and we frequently discussed their origins.....a 6 gram bird potentially making it to us from Russia. I was reading yesterday Tim in one of my reports that Goldcrests have been ringed in Norfolk and have been recovered back in Russia...that is just incredible.<br />And Tim, I wonder how many birders looked up to see the masses of Starlings passing west, as well as those other species within their numbers. I expect 'Mr Exciting' just thought just another Starling without considering their origins, again, possibly as far away as Russia.....that is the phenomena that it migration, a miracle.<br />Once again Tim, many thanks for your lovely comments.(No Natterjacks seen on this visit by the way).<br />PaulThe Breckland Birderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203400040384205222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8538774386836120846.post-46147323202453241292015-10-21T16:27:45.500-07:002015-10-21T16:27:45.500-07:00So glad for you that you decided on a trip up to t...So glad for you that you decided on a trip up to the coast...<br />lovely!<br />GWE..."<i>appearing very Heron like</i>"...<br />yup!<br />Like a White Heron with a badly-healed, broken neck...<br />when you see them side by side, they are actually larger...<br />and in flight, with those huge, deep wings, considerably so...<br />lovely creature... we get winter visits in our meadow...<br />and every time, it is drop everything...<br />and watch it!<br /><br />Great count... and surely you are not counting that sad "nothing exciting" sod as a Birder....<br />they were a "ticker"... nothing more...<br />no understanding of migration or "falls"...<br />I would have counted that 59 as a very good day out!!<br />Hundreds of Goldcrests is a wonderful...<br />and interesting...<br />sight anyday!!<br /><br />And I hope you avoided treading on any of the Natterjacks in the dunes!!<br />TimLe Pré de la Forgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02396822372095610004noreply@blogger.com