It has become increasingly difficult to catch Turnstones at Sheringham, in part due to the siting of a sauna cart, that attracts sea swimmers in the winter and includes a basket of burning coals where we used to catch them. On top of this more and more people are feeding them. The birds recognise individuals and while at Sheringham we saw evidence of bread being flung from the promenade, seed sprinkled under benches as well as seeing three other people leave food out for the Turnstones. Despite arriving early, before most dog walkers were about, they were not hungry enough to be tempted near the walk in trap.
So, on then to Walcott where birds are always on the refurbished beach or walking on the concrete sea wall. With this amount of food left out there really is little hope for us. Furthest offering is oats and the closest breadcrumbs.
We did manage to record JCT, a bird caught in October.
