The Early Birder (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
After a four hour drive, including a lengthy crawl on the M25 and various roadworks throughout our journey to Norfolk last week, we finally reached Holkham Hall Estate . Holkham Hall is an eighteenth-century country house located adjacent to the village of Holkham, on the north coast of Norfolk. The hall is one of England's finest examples of the Palladian revival style of architecture, constructed...
Connor's Birding Site (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
An excellent afternoon watch at Holkham bay. The star of the show was a close Black-necked Grebe which Josh kindly pointed out shortly after I had arrived, only the 3rd I have seen in Norfolk. The rest of the bay was also stuffed with other bits and pieces including 4+ Great-northern Divers , a distant Black-throated Diver that flew east, 3 Slavonian Grebes , a Red-necked Grebe , 10 Red-throated Divers,...
Fleetwood Birder (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
That's all I have to report today. The weather was so awful this morning when I got up, I didn't bother venturing forth outdoors at all, except to set a drop trap in my garden. With the trap baited with copious amounts of bird cake all I had to do was wait for the birds to come in, and they did. They descended on to the ground feeder enmasse and a few ventured into the trap. I pulled, and I had five...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
THE present Earl of Leicester recalls a story about the territorial jealousy of domestic servants at Holkham Hall, his family home in Norfolk, in the Thirties.
UK400ClubRareBirdAlert (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
A juvenile EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE was discovered this morning in Collieston village, just north of the Ythan Estuary (Aberdeenshire). It was frequenting the lawn of the last garden along the minor road to Sand Loch before moving early afternoon to stubble fields nearby. At 1440 hours, it flew towards the village and was not seen again despite searching. Collieston is accessed off of the A975 via the...
Bradders Birding Blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Shock, horror! That’s two weekends in a row with no new birds for the year list. Stuck fast on a measly 309, despite our best efforts today. First stop was a look for the Dusky Warbler at Gunton on the edge of Lowestoft – we gave this about three hours before giving up, though suspecting the bird might still be lurking in the vicinity. A male Dartford Warbler showed pretty well, calling...
TrentisHoe Doodles - breeding Labradoodles for health... (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Hi Gail Firstly, just to say that I hope that the recent set backs after the operation are a temporary blip and that you will be well on the way to your recovery very soon. Last Wednesday I woke up thinking "today is the day for Gail" and all our thoughts were (and still are) with you. Well - other news/ updates..... Our lives have become a situation of the tail wagging the dog - by this...
Birding with Pam and Anne (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Saturday October 31 Walking in Scuilly decided it. Time to look at lighter gear for holidays at home and abroad. I arrived at Cley Spy intending to buy a Nikon 50 scope, small enough to fit in my pocket. I left with an Opticron 50! So new that there was only one in the shop. My immediate reaction on looking through both was that the Opticron was better optically, brighter and the eyepiece easier to...
Ribble To Amazon! (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Hawfinch is my favourite bird. I can't get enough of them. I can still remember my first ones: Black Nest Gate, Virginia Water, sometime in the 1900's (think I ticked Mandarin Duck that day as well). I'm sure I could find the date if I rummage through my old notebooks but it doesn't matter. Indeed, I thought I'd seen Hawfinch before - some dodgy fly over in Cassiobury Park or Whippendell Woods, where...
JOAN SANDFORD-COOK (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Back from our time with family in Luxembourg and, as promised, here are some more sketches from my weekend trip with Anita to the north Norfolk coast. We spent the whole day Sunday at Holkham Hall finishing with a yummy pub/hotel dinner on the way back to our caravan. This is a sketch of part of the mansion I enjoyed doing in pen late afternoon seated on a rise above Holkham Hall and sharing the bench...
Words and Pictures (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Low tide on the beach at Holkham in Norfolk.
Words and Pictures (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Fallow Deer (Dama dama). Photographed at Holkham Hall in Norfolk.
Diary of a Birding Medic (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
Chaffinch - Sculthorpe Moor Snow Bunting - Cley Snow Bunting - Cley Snow Bunting - Cley Snipe - Cley Grey Lag Geese - Walsey Hills Pink Footed Geese - Holkham Egyptian Geese - Redwell Marsh Black Tailed Godwit - Redwell Marsh Black Headed Gull - Titchwell Herring Gull - Titchwell Snow Bunting - Cley Disaster Shot 1 - Firecrest - Holkham Disaster Shot 2 - Firecrest - Holkham Disaster Shot 3 - Firecrest...
Words and Pictures (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
On Saturday we had a stroll around the deer park at Holkham Hall. According to the interpretative signs, there are about 800 fallow deer in the park. I could well believe it - they were everywhere! The stags were clearly...
Tricia's Tales (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
I braved the M25 again this week but this time left much earlier (as instructed....:D )and popped into RSPB Rye Meads en route. Nothing much about but I rather liked this Teal perched on the branch. I was treated to a very tasty meal at Chez Pete 's again - yummy - and we set off the following morning, in the Autumnal early morning temperature; even had to demist the car and have the heater on!! Dawn...
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