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Welney WWT Norfolk

Monday 6th October 2025

A week of varying fortunes

Monday 29th September 2025

Norfolk yet again

Thursday 25th September 2025

Lemsford Springs Hertfordshire

Monday 8th September 2025

A Day in West Norfolk

Friday 5th September 2025

Kingfishers and Hares

Thursday 21st August 2025

The last few days of July

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Another visit to Welney

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Another session with Owls

Friday 4th July 2025

Little Owls in North Yorkshire

Saturday 28th June 2025

South Lincolnshire

Tuesday 24th June 2025

RSPB Folwmere again

Thursday 12th June 2025

Local for me

Tuesday 10th June 2025

A day of Terns in Norfolk

Friday 6th June 2025

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Friday 4th July 2014

A relatively quiet week, starting with a hushed-up trip to see some Black-necked Grebes that had just hatched one chick. Suffice to say that the location is strictly under wraps because there are signs that the pair are already looking for a second brood - and is is a Schedule 1 bird.

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Yesterday, I decided to go to Ouse Washes RSPB for the first ever sighting of a family of Ring-necked Parakeets in Cambridgeshire. There have been reports during the winter of one being seen around Cambridge but this is an odd place for them to breed.

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Ring-necked Parakeets are very distictive by their raucous call and, frustratingly, I could hear them in a paddock over a high hedge but never saw one.

Heading towards the WWT reserve at Welney, the road goes through a small hamlet called Tipps End. It is right on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk and I cannot find out which county it is in so i have put it in Cambs. If I am wrong, someone will soon let me know.

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As I drove though, I noticed feverish activity by some House Martins so I stopped to see and they were collecting mud from a puddle by the roadside. Can never resist an opportunity for some photos.

With the cloud setting in and getting windy, I made my way home but, just outside Pymore village, on a pile of soil close to the road, a Lapwing was showing. I took some shots from the road but, despite being a flighty species (in my experience) it showed no signs of moving so I pulled the car to within 30 feet and it stayed put providing me with some full frame shots.

It then beacme apparent why it stayed as, after a while, this little chap appeared.

Overall a very fruitful week.

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