Leader and Reporter: Chris Stone
6 Wensum valley members including myself met in the car park at 8.30 am on a damp windy morning. I told them the plan for the day and that our target was 80 species for the day - a high target but that was the challenge. We walked through the picnic area as the rain was getting harder, and through to the visitor’s centre.
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Leader: Francis Farrow
Coordinator: Cath Robinson Reporters: Don Pearson & Cath Robinson (Cley) Photographs: Bryony Pearson Species List: Liz Gibson & Cath Robinson (Cley) The visit was hosted by Francis Farrow, the warden, whose knowledge of the Common goes back a good many years and provided so much information on the fauna & flora. There is so much to this Common which covers 63 acres, including the adjacent Sheringham Common, and which hosts more than 20 varieties of butterfly alone including a White Admiral seen the previous week. The site is an SSSI and also incorporates Special Areas of Conservation. Leader and Reporter: Nick Edwards
A new venue for the WVBS Nightjar evening – Broadland Country Park was the place for our Nightjar quest. We met just before 9pm just off Haveringland Road. Coordinator: Mary Walker
Reporter: Keith Walker Species List: David Laurie Our group of eighteen were greeted at Wheatfen by warden Will Fitch and his trainee Felix who kindly escorted us for two hours round a small part of this 52 Hectare Nature Reserve. The weather was kind having cooled from the heat of the previous days and we were blessed with warm and mainly sunny conditions. Leaders: Sue Gale & Colin Fenn
Reporter & Bird List: David Laurie At 7:30 we gathered in a layby at a footpath onto Westleton Heath (just to the North of Minsmere). There was a Chiffchaff overhead and a Blackcap and soon after we set off there was a singing Nightingale which was seen by a fortunate few. Further on a view over a field to the right gave us a pair of Stone-curlews with two chicks, welcome evidence of successful breeding. Moving on we came upon a substantial herd of Red Deer and a gorse patch with a Dartford Warbler, again seen by a few of us, and a fine male Yellowhammer. On the grassland behind was another Stone-curlew which gave us much closer views. A little further on a pit to the left of the path had nesting Sand Martins, while on the edge were Woodlarks and a splendid Wheatear. All of which made an excellent start to a clear, sunny and warming day. |
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