Is it just me???

When I take a daily stroll through Twitter, Facebook, Birdforum and my favourite blogs, I come to the conclusion that I'm one of very few birders who are taking the current lockdown seriously. The web is crammed with photos of terrific birds at the moment: Pied Bill Grebe, Greater Yellowlegs, Sociable Plover and so on, as well as tempting Norfolk year ticks such as Iceland Gull, Lapland Bunting and Great Grey Shrike.

I rarely go after birds outside the county these days (Luckily, I have in fact seen 3 Sociable Plovers and 2 Pied-billed Grebes in the past!) but under normal circumstances I'd have been out most days over the past fortnight: always great to walk the Lighthouse Cliffs at Happisburgh, the dunes at Minsmere or Winterton Beach at this time of year, but I made the decision that this Autumn was going to be spent at or very near home. I haven't been anywhere apart from the very occasional exercise trip: the only exceptions were a couple of brief walks with Linda after shopping. 

So if this blog is full of 'tedious astronomy' as someone recently remarked, that's because I've made the decision not to 'stretch' the Government's current regulations.