Notebook
Page 1
Displaying 1 to 4 of 4 items.
Woodcock March 2008
16 March 2008
This woodcock was frequenting an area of damp salix scrub between the car park and the RSPB reserve at Titchwell. It could take some searching for it as it was sometimes out of view and at other times inactive. When inactive, its cryptic plumage rendere…More »
![[Woodcock]](vcms/thumbs/19.jpg)
![[Woodcock scratching]](vcms/thumbs/20.jpg)
![[Venturing out of thick cover.]](vcms/thumbs/18.jpg)
![[Woodcock sketch]](vcms/thumbs/21.jpg)
![[Woodcock]](vcms/thumbs/17.jpg)
![[Woodcock threat.]](vcms/thumbs/16.jpg)
An obliging Bittern.
16 March 2008
During February I spent several days sketching a bittern that was frequenting a tiny pond edged with reedmace. A friend had mentioned it to me and said that it was very obliging so the next morning I went to have a look for it. At first I thought that I m…More »
![[Bittern]](vcms/thumbs/25.jpg)
![[Bittern wading]](vcms/thumbs/22.jpg)
![[Bittern]](vcms/thumbs/27.jpg)
![[Bittern catching a frog]](vcms/thumbs/24.jpg)
![[Bittern attempting to swallow a frog]](vcms/thumbs/23.jpg)
![[Bittern and water shrew]](vcms/thumbs/26.jpg)
A Memorable Seabird Movement Blakeney Point 10th Sept 2007
16 March 2008
A unique and spectacular seabird movement off Blakeney Point– 10 th September 2007. Following a spell of warm and sunny weather, dominated bywesterly winds the conditions on the 10 th September were forecast tochange. A deep low pressure s…More »
![[My first Great Shearwater]](vcms/thumbs/12.jpg)
![[Great Shearwater]](vcms/thumbs/13.jpg)
![[Great Shearwater]](vcms/thumbs/14.jpg)
![[Sabine's Gulls]](vcms/thumbs/15.jpg){kind=small}
The subtle transition from summer to autumn
14 September 2007
The subtle transition from summer to autumn - September 2007 For many species the beginnings of autumn start during what we may regard as the height of our summer. This is particularly obvious in migrant birds and the return passage of migrant wading bir…More »
![[Newly-returned Arctic breeding waders arrive on our shores.]](vcms/thumbs/1.jpg)
![[Red admirals and migrant hawker]](vcms/thumbs/6.jpg)
![[Swallows gathering on the wires]](vcms/thumbs/2.jpg)
![[Swallows and martins alongside collard doves]](vcms/thumbs/4.jpg)
![[swallows getting ready to depart]](vcms/thumbs/3.jpg)
![[Pinkfeet arriving on the grazing marshes]](vcms/thumbs/5.jpg)