Howdy folks! And welcome back to a slightly delayed Frampton Marsh weekly sightings blog. With me, Chris the visitor guy.
And yes, I know you are used to getting these on a Friday night. Alas, sometimes life gets in the way, so it is coming out now. Hope you do not mind too much.
So, with no further ado, onto the maps...
Good to see the lesser emperor dragonflies back. In fact the hot weather has led to a spate of good sightings.
Though at least one winter visitor is still with us. The lone whooper swan is causing people to do double takes. We aren't quite sure why it is here rather than up north. It may have lost its mate, it may have been ill at migration time. Either way, it has evidently decided it is not worth the effort of flying all the way up north to just turn around and come back again, and so is soaking up the rays in sunny Lincolnshire instead.
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that is a stoat for #7. We haven't started serving Guinness (yet).
I did mention we are good for dragonflies at the moment, did I not?
The red-crested pochards were quite unusual. I think this is about the third or 4th record on the reserve ever for them. And this time there were 5. Maybe those that normally can be found at Titchwell are spreading their range?
The big excitement of Wednesday was the crane that flew straight over the reserve. John our site manager saw it, so he believes this one was real!
And finally, yesterday
As you can see, the red-crested pochards and spoonbills are still about.
Right, seeing as this is delayed I'm going to end this here. other than to say you should check out this fantastic video of young weasels shared with us by Steve Black.
If you are going to visit us, you can keep up to day 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.
So, here is the end of this late and short sightings blog. Back on time and with (hopefully) lots of pictures next week. In the meantime, 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.