Monday, 23 February 1987

Heacham & Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, 23/02/1987

Bar-tailed Godwit, Turnstone, Purple Sandpiper.

From Old Hunstanton's cliffs using telescope:
Velvet Scoter, Oystercatcher, Common Scoter, Long-tailed Duck.
Fulmar, Mediterranean Gull, Scaup, Goldeneye, Eider, Red-breasted Merganser, Egyptian Goose.

15 species, 5 new species.

Sunday, 22 February 1987

Tottenhill to Narborough, Norfolk, 22/02/1987

Cold, bright.

Great Tits, Blue Tits, Coal Tits, Great Spotted Woodpeckers, Pheasant, Treecreeper, Chaffinches, Shelduck, Tufted Ducks, Pochards, Coots, Cormorant, Robin, Jays, Magpies, Kestrel, Great Crested Grebe, Canada Goose, Moorhen, Gadwall, Mute Swans, Skylark, Wren.

23 species, 0 new species.

Sunday, 8 February 1987

Welney Washes Reserve, Norfolk, 08/02/1987

Weather: Dull, wet.

Bewick's Swan, Whooper Swan, Mute Swan.

Pochard, Wigeon.

Tree Sparrow, Partridge, Fieldfare, Great-Crested Grebe, Greenfinch, Chaffinch.

Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen, Shelduck.

15 species, 1 new specie[s].

Saturday, 31 January 1987

RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, 31/01/1987

Sunny, warm.

Sparrowhawk [N]
Pochard, Coot, Gadwall, Mallard, Pheasant, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan.
Fieldfare, Partridge, Knots, Shelducks, Redshanks, Goldfinches, Skylark.

15 species, 1 [N]ew specie[s].

Tuesday, 30 December 1986

St. Abb's Head Reserve, Borders, Scotland, 30/12/1986

Raining heavily and very windy.

Purple Sandpipers [N]
Turnstones, Chaffinches, Eider Ducks, Guillemots, Herring Gull,
Cormorants, Rock Pipit, Goldeneye, Coot, Mallard, Great Black-Backed Gull.

12 species, 1 new species.

Sunday, 14 December 1986

RSPB Snettisham, Norfolk, 14/12/1986

Partridge,
Kestrel in a tree preening.
Mistle Thrush, Yellowhammer, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese.

Goldeneyes [N], Little Grebes, Reed Buntings, Coots, Pochards.
Gadwalls [N], Wigeons [N], Cormorants, Dunnock, Chaffinchs, Shelducks, Redshanks.
Grey Plover [N], Tufted Ducks, Ringed Plover.

Red-Breasted Merganser [N] washing, preening and displaying.
Snow Buntings [N] feeding on single.

Masses of waders in flocks of thousands feeding Oystercatchers, Redshanks, Knots [N], etc.
Golden Plovers, Shovelers, Mute Swans, Scaup, Pink-Footed Geese [N].

31 species seen, 8 [N]ew species seen.