Morston - 7th September 2026

 A breezy morning, but the purpose was mainly to strim around a few rides after the farmer had cut the main areas with his heavy duty equipment. We got two doubles up with a single two panel over the ditch.

We ended on 23 birds of 8 species as we had singles of Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting and Swallow that we hadn't really expected. Leading species was Whitethroat followed by Dunnock.

Adult Whitethroat

Juvenile Swallow

View across to Blakeney Point

Total: 22 (1)

Blackcap - 3
Chiffchaff - 2
Dunnock - 5
Reed Bunting - 1
Reed Warbler - 1
Swallow - 1
Whitethroat - 7 (1)
Wren - 2

Sculthorpe Moor - 6th September 2026

Only 16 birds for 6 hours on site, with the added factor of a couple of rain showers that we were able to work around, thanks to the radar feature on Ventusky. Nothing had been showing, on the same weather app, for precipitation. The wind had sufficiently strengthened to make us start taking down by 11am.

We didn't get the numbers of Chiffchaffs that we'd hoped for, but surprisingly got a juvenile Grasshopper Warbler with a lot of body feathers still in pin, and a Treecreeper from the middle of the reeds.

Juvenile Grasshopper Warbler

Juvenile Treecreeper

Total: 14 (2)

Blackcap - 4
Blue Tit - 1
Chiffchaff - 6 (1)
Grasshopper Warbler - 1
Treecreeper - 1
Wren - 1 (1)

Salthouse Garden - 1st September 2026

A little breezier than we would have liked, but with the recent fall of migrants on the North Norfolk coast  how could a ringer not give it a go. Today we exceeded our total from two days ago finishing on 80 birds captured. That included a retrapped and new Pied Flycatcher and a Garden Warbler. Our sites rarely give us the opportunity to catch Garden Warbler so we are in the curious and rather unexpected position of having more Pied flycatchers in the records for 2026 than Garden Warblers. 

As is often the case at this site, there were rather too many Blue Tits, but the price we have to pay for the chance of migrants navigating the coast on their way south.

Juvenile Garden Warbler

Juvenile Pied Flycatcher

3M Blackcap

Age 3 Robin showing two rather nice OGCs

Total: 74 (6)

Blackcap - 13
Blue Tit - 33 (4)
Chiffchaff - 9
Coal Tit - 1
Dunnock - 2
Garden Warbler - 1
Great Tit - 7 (1)
Pied Flycatcher - 1 (1)
Robin - 5
Whitethroat - 2