2017 will be recalled by many as the worst year ever for migration and vagrancy: certainly the volume of spring / autumn migrants was the lowest I can remember. But for me personally, a year that began in hospital with double pneumonia could only get better! Although there weren't lots of shrikes, warblers, flycatchers etc to chase through Holkham Pines, nor a single new entry for the life list, every month provided me with decent photographic opportunities of some fabulous birds.
Even better, of course, it's been a great year out in the field with the newly-retired Linda and our friends Peter, Sue, Brian and Norman, as well as all our chums from the Heath and Strumpshaw: Brian Shreeve and his lovely wife Ann get a special thank you for their kindness when I was housebound throughout January.
Here's to an equally bird-rich 2018 and to continued (or improved!) health and happiness to friends and blog-readers everywhere!
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| Waxwing: Brian & Ann's garden! (January) |
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| Glaucous Gull, Sheringham (January) |
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| Hooded Crow, Mautby (January) |
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| Iceland Gull, Mautby (February) |
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| Great Grey Shrike, Cockley Cley (March) |
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| Ring Ouzels. Winterton (April) |
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| Goshawks, the Brecks (April) |
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| White-tailed Eagle, Buckenham / Cantley (May) |
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| Hobby, Buckenham - one of hundreds this year! (May) |
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| Black-winged Stilts, Potter Heigham (July) |
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| Purple Heron, Minsmere (July) |
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| Stone Curlews, The Brecks (August) |
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| Arctic Warbler, Wells Woods (September) |
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| Great White Egret, Holkham (September) |
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| Little Stints, Titchwell: 2017 was a bumper year! (September) |
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| Red-necked Phalarope, Kelling (October) |
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| Grey Phalarope, Cley (Same day as the RNP!) |
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| Shorelark, Happisburgh (November) |
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| Parrot Crossbill: part of the large flock at Santon D. (November) |
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| Twite: photogenic flock at Thornham (November) |
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| Coues's Arctic Redpoll, Hazelwood Common (December) |
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| Great Northern Diver, Oulton Broad (December) |
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