{"id":648,"date":"2018-12-11T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/?p=648"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T21:11:18","slug":"winter-walkers-rewarded-with-some-spectacular-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/winter-walkers-rewarded-with-some-spectacular-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Walkers rewarded with some spectacular species"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Winter<\/p>\n

The headcount was 33 as we left New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary at 1pm, for our 5.5 mile Winter Wander.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We walked via the Hellington & Rockland St Mary Community Reserve crossing the Hellington Beck en route. After Kaarin thieved\u00a0(collected)\u00a0<\/span>beautiful wood blewitt fungi( for\u00a0<\/span>consumption) we reached the hilltop church of Claxton.<\/p>\n

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Beyond, we descended to Claxton village via Peascod lane and the magnificent 500-600 year-old Peascod oak. A short road walk followed through the village and out towards the edge of the Claxton marshes where we took a break by the wondrous Beech tree\u00a0(<\/span>Fagus\u00a0<\/i><\/span>sylvatica chocolata<\/i>), which magically produced a tin of Quality Street from amongst its root system.<\/p>\n

The report from Peter Armitage of a female Hen Harrier urged us on to the marshes alongside the Carlton Beck. The weather held up fine for us to walk alongside the River Yare, with Chinese Water Deer and a variety of wetland birds being spotted. A couple of highlights were the now rare sight of a flock of around 150 Peewits\u00a0(Lapwings),\u00a0<\/span>and a number of Marsh Harriers going to their roost at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dusk was falling as we walked the eastern boundary of Rockland Broad, and The New Inn was a welcome sight on the last stretch. The pub did us proud providing mulled wine and mince pies in the restaurant ‘side-<\/span>room\u2019.<\/p>\n

Our primary bird recorder and SYWG committee member, Reg Land, illustrates what an ornithologically-rich landscape we live in \u2013 and just how effective a good pair of ears, eyes and binoculars can be\u2026 by recording a staggering 56 species! These are listed below.<\/p>\n

All in all a very enjoyable and successful event –\u00a0thank you to everyone who turned up.<\/p>\n

Kevin Parker<\/em><\/p>\n

Species spotted:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Mute Swan<\/li>\n
  2. Greylag Goose<\/li>\n
  3. Egyptian Goose<\/li>\n
  4. Gadwall<\/li>\n
  5. Mallard<\/li>\n
  6. Red-legged Partridge<\/li>\n
  7. Cormorant<\/li>\n
  8. Little Grebe<\/li>\n
  9. Red Kite<\/li>\n
  10. Hen Harrier<\/li>\n
  11. Water Rail<\/li>\n
  12. Coot<\/li>\n
  13. Black-headed Gull<\/li>\n
  14. Herring Gull<\/li>\n
  15. Woodpigeon<\/li>\n
  16. Kestrel<\/li>\n
  17. Jackdaw<\/li>\n
  18. Carrion Crow<\/li>\n
  19. Blue Tit<\/li>\n
  20. Coal Tit<\/li>\n
  21. Long-tailed Tit<\/li>\n
  22. Wren<\/li>\n
  23. Blackbird<\/li>\n
  24. Song Thrush<\/li>\n
  25. Robin<\/li>\n
  26. House Sparrow<\/li>\n
  27. Chaffinch<\/li>\n
  28. Goldfinch<\/li>\n
  29. Pink-footed Goose<\/li>\n
  30. Canada Goose<\/li>\n
  31. Wigeon<\/li>\n
  32. Teal<\/li>\n
  33. Shoveler<\/li>\n
  34. Pheasant<\/li>\n
  35. Grey Heron<\/li>\n
  36. Great Crested Grebe<\/li>\n
  37. Marsh Harrier<\/li>\n
  38. Buzzard<\/li>\n
  39. Moorhen<\/li>\n
  40. Lapwing<\/li>\n
  41. Common Gull<\/li>\n
  42. Stock Dove<\/li>\n
  43. Collared Dove<\/li>\n
  44. Magpie<\/li>\n
  45. Rook<\/li>\n
  46. Goldcrest<\/li>\n
  47. Great Tit<\/li>\n
  48. Cetti’s Warbler<\/li>\n
  49. Chiffchaff<\/li>\n
  50. Starling<\/li>\n
  51. Fieldfare<\/li>\n
  52. Redwing<\/li>\n
  53. Dunnock<\/li>\n
  54. Pied Wagtail(yarrellii)<\/span><\/li>\n
  55. Lesser Redpoll<\/li>\n
  56. Reed Bunting<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The headcount was 33 as we left New Inn Hill, Rockland St Mary at 1pm, for our 5.5 mile Winter Wander. We walked via the Hellington & Rockland St Mary Community Reserve crossing the Hellington Beck en route. After Kaarin thieved\u00a0(collected)\u00a0beautiful wood blewitt fungi( for\u00a0consumption) we reached the hilltop church of Claxton. Beyond, we descended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southyarewildlifegroup.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}