| Carlton
Marshes Low flying Apache helicopters seem to have taken an unfortunate liking to the reserve lately, and this one is higher than many! A second (or revisiting) GREAT REED WARBLER singing intermittently for one day on 2nd June was a bonus second chance after the first untwitchable one in May. |
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FULMAR Fulmarus glacialis
Gunton Warren - 5th (2).
CATTLE EGRET Bubulcus ibis
Two were at Carlton Marshes briefly on the morning of the 2nd before flying north, with one on the morning of the 3rd as well also heading north.
GREAT WHITE EGRET Ardea alba
One was at Carlton Marshes on the 7th and 23rd.
SPOONBILL Platalea leucorodia
Carlton Marshes - 3rd (1).
SWAN GOOSE Anser cygnoides
Three escaped/feral individuals of this east Asian species at Carlton Marshes on the 7th and 8th may have felt quite at home with all the Chinese Water Deer wandering around.
WIGEON Anas penelope
Carlton Marshes - 23rd (1).
TEAL Anas crecca
Carlton Marshes - 23rd (29).
GADWALL Anas strepera
Carlton Marshes - 23rd (130),
POCHARD Aythya ferina
Carlton Marshes - 18th - 23rd (3).
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| Swan Geese - Carlton Marshes © Andrew Easton |
COMMON SCOTER Melanitta nigra
Ness Point - 7th (14 N).
RED KITE Milvus milvus
Mutford - 2nd (2).
Worlingham Marshes - 2nd (1).
Lowestoft - 4th (1).
RED-FOOTED FALCON Falco vespertinus
A first summer male flew south at Breydon on the morning of the 1st.
HOBBY Falco subbuteo
Carlton Marshes - 2nd (1), 6th (1), 14th (7).
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| An old photograph from
c.1890 overlooking Oulton Broad
from the Wherry Hotel
area. |
COMMON CRANE Grus grus
Two flew west along the River Waveney at Carlton Marshes on the 3rd.
RINGED PLOVER Charadrius hiaticula
Carlton Marshes - 3rd (5), 5th (2).
KNOT Calidris canutus
Carlton Marshes - 4th (2).
CURLEW Numenius arquata
Ness Point - 21st (2 N, 5 S).
Carlton Marshes - 23rd (4 S).
GREENSHANK Tringa nebularia
Carlton Marshes - 3rd - 5th (1).
WOOD SANDPIPER Tringa glareola
Carlton Marshes - 5th (1), 18th (1).
GREEN SANDPIPER Tringa ochropus
Carlton Marshes - 15th (1), 20th (1).
SANDWICH TERN Sterna sandvichensis
Ness Point/Lowestoft North Beach - 7th (7 N, 1 S), 21st (15), 24th (12).
LITTLE TERN Sternula albifrons
Ness Point - 5th (5 N).
CUCKOO Cuculus canorus
Carlton Marshes - 7th (4), 23rd (2).
GREAT REED WARBLER Acrocephalus arundinaceus
One was singing along the River Waveney at Carlton Marshes on the 2nd. There has been no sight or sound of one in the area since the one at Whitecast Marsh on May 9th so it is presumably a different individual; although it could be the same one revisiting sites it has tried previously.
CROSSBILL Loxia curvirostra
One flew north at Lowestoft North Denes on the 7th.
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