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Norfolk coast: a birders’ log

Dave Travers writes:
Throughout the walk the almost constant accompaniment was the song of the skylark. And almost every village seemed to have its own cuckoo.

Page created 12.1.03
Amended 29.2.04

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heron
avocet
whitethroat
linnet
sedge warbler
reed bunting
godwit
black headed gull
swift
cuckoo
tern
fulmar
sand martin
skylark

Art from birdcheck.co.uk

Marshes around Thornham and Burnham Overy Staithe
Herons
Many avocets - territorial cries
Holkham Gap
Whitethroat singing from a prominent twig of a bush
Groups of linnets on rough ground
Sedge warbler and reed bunting
Approaching Wells-next-the-Sea
Godwits on the mud flats
Stiffkey Marshes
Noisy colony of black-headed gulls
Cley next the Sea
Swifts screaming around the buildings as the sun set
Cuckoo started up at 3.20am!
Salthouse marshes
Small groups of terns fishing just offshore
Weybourne
Fulmars patrolling the cliffs between Sheringham and Weybourne, gliding effortlessly on stiffly outstretched wings
Sheringham
Large colony of sand-martins nesting in the sandy cliffs just by the border of Sheringham Park ie west of Sheringham.
Credit
Thanks to Ash Midcalf for permission to use his scans of the mid 19th century work of Yorkshire vicar Rev Francis Orpen Morris, catalogued on birdcheck.co.uk