Breckland Birder

Breckland Birder
Red Deer in Breckland, Norfolk Photo by Paul Newport

Sunday 7 October 2018

Little Cressingham

What a cracking autumn day, not too warm but with bright conditions throughout the day.
I decided on a static watch of mixed habitat of arable, a full and varied hedgerow with an adjacent strip of maize, sunflower, and other weed-seeds.  The photograph below shows the hedgerow visited, it is an east-west hedge and descends to the valley to the west, clearly, this picture shows that Norfolk is not a flat county as some would believe.
I expected to see mostly Finch and Buntings species and indeed these did form the majority of birds seen.
The most noticeable species seen initially was many hundreds of Crows in flight above the distant valley.  Much closer in the hedge and adjacent maize and sunflower strip, a mix of Finches and Buntings comprised good numbers of Yellowhammers, Reed Buntings, Chaffinches, and a few Greenfinches.  A stunning male Bullfinch sat for a while in the hedge offering distant but great views.
A few Song Thrushes were heard and seen, obvious continental migrants, along with a few Blackbirds.  Heard but unseen was Brambling, my first of this autumn

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