Howdy folks! Welcome back to this week's edition of the Frampton marsh recent sightings. With me, Chris the visitor guy!
OK, so I fibbed a bit last week. No-one really asked for just maps, I was slightly pushed for time. But maps where we are going to start again this week...
Yes, the snow buntings were still with us from last week. This was the last day of a curlew sandpiper though. A purple sandpiper is a very good bird for the reserve. Normally if they get seen with us they are over at Freiston.
Bearded tits you still have to be lucky to find. Both with where you are and what the weather is doing. My advice is to come as early as possible in the morning.
In addition to the birds on the map, there were also spotted redshanks on the smaller section of wet grassland behind the scrapes, and rock pipits on the seabank.
Another great white egret pops up, but just for a day. Are there more out there than actually get seen, hidden out on the saltmarsh? Who can tell...
Brambling was a nice bird to find at the centre feeders, first for the winter. And as you can see, the river mouth was a very good place to be!
Avocets and sanderling were among the rarer waders around on Wednesday. And a lot of wigeon.... This video shows under half the number that were in front of the visitor centre at one point
Sorry, no map for Thursday
Hmm, a bit quiet on Friday it seems. Swallow is rather late, to say the least!
So, there's the maps. Now, how about some photos?
Oliver Woodman caught up with the snow buntings:
And David Suddards was volunteering in the visitor centre when the brambling visited
Another centre volunteer, Brian Lawrence, captured the neck-twisting courtship antics of the drake goldeneye
And well, it just wouldn't be Frampton Marsh photos without some from Neil Smith...
If you are coming to visit us, you can keep up to date with the sightings by following our Twitter account. No need to have an account yourself, we make it so everyone can see it. If you do tweet yourself, please remember to use #RSPBframpton so we can see what you are posting, and also ideally mention @RSPBNorfolkLinc. If you have any good photos (or video, or even artwork) we'd love to see that too. Tweet it, or share it on our Facebook page or our Flickr account.
I hope you all have a great week, take care, have fun, and I will catch you next time.
Reedbed, freshwater scrapes, saltmarsh and wet meadow. Frampton Marsh has it all! Come and pay us a visit soon.