Friday 30 May 2014

Suffolk Days 4-6

More Corn Bunting action around Chelmondiston; a brief reccy on Tuesday confirmed that there were several singing in fields south of the east end of the village, so on Wednesday I got up early and surveyed most of the area, coming away with at least 9 singing birds. Add to this a couple seen elsewhere this week, I reckon that's at least 11 immediately around Chelmo. I'm sure more surveys over a wider area would reveal more, but perhaps that's someone else's responsibility now.

Corn Bunt

The remainder of Wednesday was spent up the coast, and included a nice walk round Minsmere (where I banned the whistling of the Springwatch theme tune in our group). The scrape was full of breeding birds, but a single Bar-wit seemed to be about the only passage wader. There were at least 25 Kittiwakes present as well, not a phenomenon I remember, but I guess they'd not had to come far from Sizewell Rigs. The only notable bird was the female Red-backed Shrike in the dunes south of the Sluice; seen too briefly and too distantly for a photo. 

Kittiwakes

Thursday was our last full day, and again didn't involve any proper birding, but canoeing on Thorpeness Mere produced a cuckoo and two singing Nightingales in the south-east corner.  

Swan family

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