I was out of county at the weekend helping my sons with a garden make-over project. On Sunday Gresham Phil phoned to see if I’d been for the White-tailed Eagle at Glandford. Apparently a ‘genuine bird’, showing extremely well all day. Well I hadn’t! However, our briefing at Cley on Monday was interrupted by news that the eagle had left it’s inland roost and was heading our way, eventually settling near Swan Lake, where it stayed for the next couple of hours. It is a 2cy bird, ringed as a casualty in Holland after an encounter with a pylon – thought to be of wild Belgium origin. That was the highlight of our duty day. Our various UEA student projects have been getting going this week so sometime spent prepping – Bee-eaters breeding in Britain, the rise of Caspian & YL Gull and ‘priority habitats’ are the first ones out of the blocks. Sea-watching on Tuesday produced a couple of useful speed checks and an hour or so at Weybourne yesterday added Snow Bunting to my year list. Today Felbeck Trust volunteers are at Sustead and tonight sees the opening talk, by Cromer Green Spaces, at the start of Grey Seal Coffee Nature Month event.
In case you are at a loose end, here is the programme of nature talks at the Cromer Grey Seal Coffee cafe Nature Month event – I’m directly involved with the Felbeck Trust and Bird Club talks.
Cromer Nature Notes 