Titchwell Marsh RSPB Nature Reserve, Norfolk, UK, 31-Dec-2010

9:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: Out with mum & Ben, but George changed his mind & we turned back to drop him off.
Weather: cold, cloudy, some mist.
57 species

Pink-footed Goose X
Brent Goose X
Mute Swan X
Gadwall X
Eurasian Wigeon X
Mallard X
Northern Shoveler X
Northern Pintail X
Green-winged Teal X
Common Eider 3

Long-tailed Duck 5 on the sea. My first sight of these ducks in the UK in over 20 years. They were pointed out by a kindly fellow birder & easily picked up though the views weren't great due to a misty sea.

Common Goldeneye X
Common Pheasant X - heard.
Little Grebe X - seen 31/12/2010 with Kim, Ben & George.

Horned/Slavonian Grebe 1 on the sea. Picked out from the bench with fellow birders & again as I walked the beach with mum & Ben. A great bird to see, the second after my first at Dungeness.

Great Bittern 1 creeping about on the frozen Thornham fresh-marsh, it attracted quite a crowd, & we watched it for quite some time as it was Ben's first. He was fascinated with how it could be so compact one second & then elongated the next. When we returned back from the beach it was still there & we lingered for another look. A gentleman asked Ben to look through the scope as he'd never seen one either & Ben told him it was his first too - only an age difference between the two of approx. 50 years!

Grey Heron X
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier 1
Water Rail 1 also came onto the ice near the bittern. Seen on the way back.

Common Moorhen X
Northern Lapwing X
Grey Plover X
European Golden-Plover X
Eurasian Oystercatcher X
Common Redshank X
Eurasian Curlew X
Black-tailed Godwit X
Bar-tailed Godwit X
Ruddy Turnstone X
Sanderling X
Dunlin X - over.
Ruff X
Common Snipe X
Black-headed Gull X
Common Gull X - over.
Herring Gull X
Lesser Black-backed Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Common Wood-Pigeon X
Eurasian Jay X
Carrion Crow X
Skylark X
Coal Tit X - seen 31/12/2010 with Kim, Ben & George.
Great Tit X
Blue Tit X
Eurasian Wren X
Eurasian Blackbird X
European Starling X
Dunnock X - seen 31/12/2010 with Kim, Ben & George.
Pied Wagtail X
Meadow Pipit X - heard.
Reed Bunting X
Common Chaffinch X
European Greenfinch X
European Goldfinch X
Common Linnet X
House Sparrow X

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