Ring ouzel are always a treat and the two males at Waxham this morning were no exception.

Avocets looked happy at Cley yesterday. My first sedge warbler of the year too

Spring sprung at Waxham this morning. 2 wheatear joined a willow warbler, whitethroats, chiffchaffs, blackcap, swallow, sand Martins and a house Martin. A wintry Iceland gull lingered on the beach though

Wow. New for garden? Your garden list has some proper quality in it Tim...

Glaucous gull. Big white gull on rock

Iceland gull. Medium sized white gull on a rock

2 gulls on rocks. The top one is 2nd winter glaucous gull. The bottom one is 1st winter Iceland gull

Iceland gull and glaucous gull were together at Waxham this morning. Otherwise an uneventful stroll there...

Big pale gull on sandy beach with seal flipper in background. Grey seal. Glaucous gull.

Gull with pink black tipped bill against a background of a seals body. Gull is a glaucous gull. Seal is grey seal

Sunny Waxham felt springy with 5 chiffchaffs, but the glaucous gull was still on the beach with the seals

Incorrect ID of tundra bean as taiga though.... Rookie error....

Birding notes from child 2 (aged 9) from today's tour of Geese and churches

Don't blame you. Probably more beans. Too cold for wimps like me, + I was there with 9 Yr old kid...

Pinkfooted goose drawing by child

Pinkfeet + 1 tundra bean leg....

Pinkfeet in snow, east norfolk

I started reading The Meaning of Geese by @themarshtit.bsky.social to my 9 year old who has never been into birds (into medieval Norfolk churches). Today he insisted on a wild goose chase: thousands of pinkfeet, + greylags, Egyptian geese & 5 tundra bean geese nr Waxham. Child now drawing pinkfeet

Several thousand pinks and at least 5 tundra beans this afternoon in fields behind Brograve farm....

Otter cub calling... Sound on

Sound on for the full cute effect....

Otter cub calling to parent

Amazing otter encounter today at Potter heigham. The adult trotted up to me with cub 8n mouth, spotted me, dropped cub and ran away. I quietly retreated, sat and watched as the young otter called it's parent back.

At least 3 water pipits with meadow pipits at Potter heigham today. At the limit of my skill/distance ratio for pictures....

A street in Norwich lit by street lights. A blurry fox's back end can be seen disappearing into the dark

Fox outside my Norwich house - first I have seen from home. Another entry for wildlife photographer of the year 2025....

A walk in fog on Saturday at Potter Heigham Marsh. A peregrine ruffled large numbers if lapwing and ducks in the murk. Biggest surprise was a briefly surfacing seal (common I think) in the river thurne

A Dave photo, not mine....

Woodcock

Woodcock

... Sea...

Woodcock caught in Norwich Garden

Woodcock caught in Norwich Garden

Woodcock in Norwich Garden

Excitement in my Norwich garden when a woodcock appeared in my tiny garden. It struggled to fly, so I caught it to check for injury. No damage, but no fat reserves. Exhausted I guess. It had flown off when I checked at lunchtime

Zooming in recommended....

Adult male hen harrier at sea, Waxham

Great to see a crisp adult hen harrier arriving over the see at Waxham yesterday. 2 snow bunting flew along the dunes and a few seal pups were on the beach too

Donald Trump is “most openly corrupt president in U.S. history”.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Many were blackbirds, which coated paths and bushes and poured vertically down from the sky. Lots of redwings too, field fare, song and mistle thrush. A clouded yellow butterfly was unexpected too

Goldcrests Waxham Nov25

Blackbirds Waxham Nov 25

Murky mist first thing dropped lots of migrating birds to the ground at Waxham this morning. At least 2, probably 3 siberian chiffchaffs and a black redstart made the bird news reports, but the real highlight was the phenomenal numbers of thrushes - many thousands.

Spotted flycatcher at Waxham

Spotted flycatcher at Waxham

Rainy and quiet at Waxham this morning. A spotted flycatcher at Shangri la, and a brief black redstart over the Great barn were highlights.

Lesser grey shrike, Winterton

Snow bunting, Horsey Corner

Black redstart, Horsey Windpump

Brograve Mill

A morning researching for a book on walks and swims for the other half took me to Horsey, where I bumped into Tim H, then a v tame snow bunting, 2 common redstarts and a black redstart on Horsey wind pump. Cranes, great egrets and great views. At Winterton the lesser grey shrike perched in the dunes