Seabirds grace Norfolk coast

The easterlies are returning! But before they do a spell of high speed North to North Westerlies are battering the North Norfolk coast as we speak, as well as many other areas of the North Sea coast.
This is great news for birders, especially those who enjoy seawatching.

Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua, Arctic Skua, Gannet, Little Gull, Red-Throated Diver, Razorbill, Great-Crested Grebe, Wigeon, Common Scoter and 2 Short-Eared Owls in off were all noted past Cley in just a 50 minute spell. With those birders staying longer enjoying fantastic views of Leach's Petrel.

Also along the coast at Holme, Sheringham and Winterton sea birds have been cropping up in good numbers, especially Sooty Shearwaters.

With the Northerlies set to swing round to North Easterlies through Thursday night and into Friday the picture changes again.

The hope is for more seabird movement but also for an arrival of passerines from Scandinavia and beyond. Perhaps One Stop Nature will repeat on the Yellow-Browed Warbler of a week ago, or perhaps something rarer!

Hopefully many birdwatchers will be able to get out there during these conditions and turn up something special for the rest of us to enjoy. As ever do pop in and report your sightings to us here at One Stop Nature and we will put what you have seen on our sightings board outside the shop.

In the meantime, have a look at the charts below from Magicseaweed.com to see how the winds will change in the next 48 hours, starting at Thursday morning and ending at Saturday morning.

Happy Birding!

One Stop Nature.

 

 

Siberian passerine visits One Stop Nature

As a birdwatcher you can find yourself going all over the country looking for rare birds. But yesterday one of these rare birds decided to visit us here at One Stop Nature.
A Yellow-Browed Warbler, which breeds in Siberia and winters in South East Asia, was heard and then seen yesterday morning by two customers of One Stop Nature.
After another search this petite warbler failed to show again, giving just a couple of blasts of its high pitched "tsoeest" call.
 There has been countless Yellow-Browed Warbler sightings throughout Britain in the last week or so, their arrival boosted by a continuing high pressure and easterly winds.
As ever we welcome any sightings here at One Stop Nature so if you are passing and have seen something interesting do pop in and let us know.
A happy Autumn to all bird watchers out there. 

Puss Moth

A beautiful Puss Moth was seen on our shop wall yesterday. The security lights outside the row of shops at Deepdale Market are attracting a good variety of species. This Puss Moth being the best so far:

Moths and more moths

Saturday 20 July 2013
We are hearing from some of our customers that moths are everywhere. People running moth traps are reporting big catches so we put the OneStop moth trap out last night and below are a few of the ones we caught. They are all released after being photographed.

We are expecting a delivery of Skinner Traps in the next couple of weeks. These will be of a slightly heavier duty design than previous traps.

Garden Tiger Moth at rest

 

Garden Tiger with wings open

 

 Garden Tiger head on

 Leopard Moth

 Poplar Hawk Moth

 Privet Hawk Moths

Toucan play at that game....

As summer finally (fingers crossed) arrives after a very unpredictable month we can all look forward to Wimbledon, Pimms and the great British summer.

First though, take a look at this new binocular from Kite which has landed at The One Stop Nature Shop.

Carrying on with the bird name trend Kite has named their new binocular the Toucan. Priced at under £300 (£299) it represents Kite's cheapest roof prism binocular at this time.

Coming in an 8x42 and 10x42 format to start the Toucan offers the excellent build quality and 30 year warranty that has given Kite such a strong reputation.

First impressions are of an superbly built binocular with very sharp objects and a really high quality feel.

Why not pop in to The One Stop Nature Shop at Burnham Deepdale and try them for yourself....

Rose-Coloured Starling visits local town

This week birders, photographers and the general public have all been treated to stunning views of an adult male Rose-Coloured Starling (Pastor roseus) in Wells-next-the-sea.

It can be found along the road to East Quay in a small garden on the north side of the road.

Its typical breeding range starts in the very east of Europe and extends into Asia minor, moving to India and tropical Asia in winter.

This very confiding bird has been giving excellent views and it is definitely worth popping along and seeing if you are in the area.

A few images below from One Stop Nature staff member Oliver Reville (More at www.flickr.com/oreville1989 & www.ojrnaturalworldphotos.wordpress.com/)

Little Gull

26 April 2013
An adult Little Gull graced Deepdale Marsh for a couple of days. Now (28th) two reported at Titchwell.