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[ Sightings ]
A quiet start to 2009 with a small number of Tundra Bean Geese
amongst the Pink-footed Geese as well as a Ross's Goose of unknown
provenance and a Glaucous Gull at Great Yarmouth. The only unusual
sighting was of a Great White Egret over Stubb Mill on 17 January
2009 but there was a record Norfolk count of over 1,800 Red-throated
Divers on 10 January which again demonstrated the importance of
east Norfolk coastal waters for this species. The Strumpshaw and
Buckenham areas took the limelight in February and March with Cattle
Egret, Green-winged Teal and 2 Penduline Tits though there was a
Ring-necked Duck at Hoveton Little Broad and a Rough-legged Buzzard
at Haddiscoe in February and a Great White Egret at Stalham in March.
Spring passage produced possible as many as two to three Great
White Egrets in the district, Purple Heron, Black Kite, a party
of three Bee-eaters, three Woodchat Shrikes, three Serins, two Red-rumped
Swallows and a Pallid Harrier - the latter at Horsey on 30 April
2009.
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