Indoor Meeting 3rd April

Hello

The next indoor meeting of the club is on Wednesday 3rd April 2019 when our visiting speaker Alan Peters will be reminiscing of his recent trip to Kazakhstan where he thoroughly enjoyed birding the vast expanse of steppes and other habitats to find the special birds of this region. Alan' presentation entitled 'Birding the Steppes and Mountains of Central Asia' will come with digital images and the meeting begins as usual at 7.30pm.

Hot drinks and biscuits will be available during the evening and members and non members alike are very welcome!

Regards

Neil M

Demoiselle Crane.

Pallas's Sandgrouse.

NBC Car Trip to Titchwell

MARSH HARRIER

Titchwell a well seasoned favourite and always a great place to visit.

Whilst having a slurp in the car park on arrival, Richard and Trish joined us. The weather prognosis wasn't bad,  being sunny with a little bit of a breeze.

There had been a White Tailed Sea-eagle wandering up and down the coast, so who knows what we were to expect.

First up a beardy, unusually just the one, a female type, but the breeze was keeping it low.

Bearded Tit   Bob Gill

Making for the beach whilst the tide was still high, a bit of sea watching was in order. Some nice plumaged Red breasted Mergansers passed by with Red necked, Great Crested and Slavonian Grebes vying for position on the sea. A Great Northern Diver and Scoter were also out and about.

As the tide receded water rushed out of the tidal lake exposing fresh feeding ground for a host of waders flying in.

Avocets   Mark Williams

Avocet  Bob Gill.

Brent Goose   Bob Gill

Brent Geese were coming in off the marshes along with Curlew, Redshank, both Black tailed and Bar tailed Godwits and Knot etc.

Flocks of knot twinkling in the sunlight  as they flew around this way then that way.

Knot,  this way

Knot,  that way

Avocet

Amongst all the kerfuffle were a few pairs of Med Gulls.

Med Gull    Mark Williams.

Med Gull.

Wigeon

A walk along the Meadow trail hopefully for a Bittern or Woodcock, a female Brambling was imprisoned in a bird feeder.






Continuing along the Fen walk we stopped at the end to photograph a few Marsh Harriers.










A Buzzard was also seen stooping,

Common Buzzard.

Red Kite   Mark Will  I am    s

Lastly we visited the dank and dark stream where the perennial Water Rail had been seen.






A sunny weekend in Norfolk brought out hoards of people, making the traffic on the way home
 dismal.

Aside from that, it was a wonderful bird filled day.

AGM and Indoor Meeting 6th March

Hello

The club's AGM is to be held on Wednesday 6th March commencing at 7.30pm at the usual venue of the Fishing Lodge at Pitsford Reservoir. Bob Gill, the club chairman, will be managing the meeting and after the AGM formalities we very much look forward to a presentation from visiting speaker Colin Wilkinson who will be speaking about a recent wildlife trip to Taiwan. Colin is supporting his presentation with images from this exciting Asiatic island.

As usual hot drinks and biscuits will be available during the evening and all are welcome to attend.

Neil M

Barn Owl.

Turtle Dove.
Images courtesy
of Robin Gossage.

GREAT DELIBERATIONS

Hear ye, Hear ye

and for your delectation, all entries for the Northants Bird Club Photographic Competition, are now on the blog.

So for all those that missed a great evening or would like to simply peruse some wonderful images,

go to,  https://northantsbirdclub.blogspot.com/p/photographic-competition-winners-2018.html