Bright & sunny, some clouds. From 845am.
A visit back to the pine woods after a family beach trip in July, to check out the 'dell' for migrants, though I was obviously too early!
In the car-park: Pied Wagtail, Woodpigeon & Swallow over the nearby (smelly) boating lake.
Into the woods: Willow Warbler singing but not seen; Wren, Great Spotted Woodpecker, & a foraging Coal Tit group.
Further into the woods: Dunnock in brambles, Jay, then a muntjac deer scrambled away through the undergrowth; in another foraging party, Goldcrest & Treecreeper.
Leaving the forest & walking along a road alongside fields: Carrion Crow, Lesser Black-Backed Gull over flew; Long-Tailed Tit calling noisily from hedgerow.
Back into the woods & then emerging along the beach's dunes I heard crossbills but didn't catch a glimpse, however as I scanned the trees for them I noticed a distinctive couple of falcons. Two Hobby were chasing insects including at one point what appeared to be a cabbage white butterfly, zipping back & forth on their speedy wings: a first for me in Norfolk. At the same time I watched the hobbies a Marsh Harrier drifted through & finally a Collared Dove in the carpark.
16 species, none new.
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