NORFOLK 23RD - 29TH SEPTEMBER 2007

Our Norfolk Bush Bash will be remembered for the sheer quality of the birds on offer this year. Seabirds featured hiugly with 4 Sabine's Gulls, Grey Phalarope, Pomarine, Arctic and Great Skuas, Manx Shearwaters, 100+ Little Gulls, 2000+ Northern Gannets and a few Red-throated Divers and Commo Scoters aongst the usual array of auks. Pink-footed Geese were already back in their thousands and we also had a Lesser Snow Goose amongst them -fantastic! Not to be outdone, passerines featured Wryneck, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Great Grey Shrike, a Greenish Warbler briefly, Common Redstart, Brambling, Snow Buntings, Pied and Spotted Flycatchers and amajor fall of Goldcrests and Common Chiffchaffs, Great Bittern and Short-eared Owl were among the overhead igrants, while the pick of the shorebirds were Long-biiled Dowitcher and Buff-breasted Sandpiper, but we also saw plenty of Curlew Sandpiper, Pied Avocet, Ruff and Little Stint. Yellow-legged Gull, Bearded Tit, Marsh Harriers and Garganey rounded off a spelndid weeks birding. Join us again in September 2009 for more exciting autumn birding.