Trip Reports

This is were we will show you our sightings on trips we have been on throughout the year in the U.K.
18/6/05 Lakenheath Leaders: Simeon and Matthew
The weather was fine, the birds were showing well, the grass was brushing against you, what more could you want. Erm, Golden Orioles perhaps. Though I say that, I did catch a brief glimpse of the female flitting in the upper branches of a Poplar, before flying deep into the woods again. But really, I would have expected the male to be viewable on a day like this. We heard the two calling, but the male stayed in the heart of the Poplars, maybe near the nest.
Other birds we saw were; three Great-Crested Grebes on nests, the odd Grey Heron, a pair of Marsh Harriers displaying and three Kestrels over all.

18/6/05 Weeting Heath Leaders: Simeon and Matthew
After we'd had enough at Lakenheath we moved on to Weeting Heath. Only one Stone Curlew had been seen that day and we just managed to glimpse it flying at the back of the field from the East hide. We also saw the pair of Spotted Flycatchers that were nesting in a box outside the West hide. Three young Stoats were play fighting in the field outside the East hide and a Green Woodpecker landed nearby while another one flew over.

25/6/05 Holme NOA leaders:Connor

A afternoon trip to the very friendly reserve of Holme. While driving up the track two Chiffchaffs and a Whitethroat sang. Shortly after this both Little Egret and Turtle Dove were

seen flying over the marsh and a Kestrel hovered next to the board-walk. The morning had been quite good for seawatching with a distant skua sp. the best so we tried our luck from the dunes. One Gannet, one Kittiwake, ten plus Sandwich Terns, two Common Terns and a Little Tern. We finished by seeing a pair of Montagu's Harriers at a nearby site. A reasonably productive trip.