Snow Buntings

For four days now there has been a nice flock of 15 Snow Buntings on Great Yarmouth North Beach. In the Cemetary there were five Bramblings and c40 Blackbirds and a single Chiffchaff. For the Fungus buffs there are plenty of Waxcaps and lots of agaricales in the cem too

Waxwings

After c0 flew west over Sainsburys Great armouth this morning I managed to find one in Rowans at GY cemetary

Some Winter Visitors

The rest of Norfolk was heaving with birds of one sort or another but as usual Great Yarmouth missed out. The Great Yarmouth North Denes produced the first Snow Buntings of the winter, with a flock of 5 including many males just north of the Brittania Pier. Other than a few Skylarks and Mipits the DEnes was quite, a few Blue Tits and a Pair of Carrion crows were notable.

Continental migration again

Great walk on patch, 27 Med Gulls on GY Beach and several Redwings Continental Blackbirds and Song Thrushes incl

uding many Goldcrests

Cemetary Fungi

A good list of over 20 Fungi today including many Wax caps and Blewits and Puffballs

More Migration

The visit to the patch on Yarmouth North Denes and cemetary produced 9 Med Gulls on the beach, two Redwings on the cem and a Firecrest again in a roving Long tailed Tit Flock

Great Yarmouth Cemetary Firecrest

A fine Firecrest today in a hOlly by the chapel in the North Sector, followed by a single Brambling in a flock of c70 Chaffinches. I have found the best way to work this area is to walk slowly and look at every bird you see in the trees. It is a site that nees thorough searching