20190322 Shelduck CR green S7, Iron Road

20190322 Shelduck

Male by the Iron Road with small flock.

S7 on green darvik left, and metal ring on right leg.

Note bird tugging at metal ring...
The bird is part of a BTO Windfarm impact survey, see below.

20190322 Shelduck

From David & Pats records this is the first CR shelduck ever recorded in the Cley Square.
S7 is part of a BTO survey funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme.
BTO Ecologist Ross Green's data so far:
I ringed S7 on Havergate Island TM 41028 47096 on 12th July last year. This was caught and ringed as part of a project to assess the interactions of Shelduck with offshore wind farms during their migration to the continent for their annual moult. In order to track their migration we attached a GPS device to S7 and 3 other Shelduck. S7 migrated from Havergate across the North Sea to the Dutch coast near Alkmaar and then flew north into the Dutch Wadden Sea near Zwarte Haan. It remained in this area for a week and then flew on to the Elbe Estuary in the German Wadden Sea. It continued to move around the Wadden Sea until the GPS tag detached from it on 14th August. 

It would be very useful to find out if S7 breeds in the area of Cley and Salthouse Marshes.
Subsequent searches have found 19 pairs in the area of Swan Lake but no S7.

20190527 Shelduck

Pre-breeding flock of 15 by Pig Farm. Birds appeared to be paired. 

20170519 Shelduck

Pre-breeding group of 14 posturing at Cley, May 2017, 4 males 10 females.

20200207 Hooded Crow Wiveton

20200207 Hooded Crow

Loosely associated with other corvids.
The bird has been observed taking pig pellets and perching on the pigs backs. 

20200207 Hooded Crow

Was independently mobile and wide ranging.
Spooked easily along with Jackdaws.

20200113 Pink-footed, Tundra Bean & White-fronted Geese Langham. 20191230 Taiga Bean Goose Buckenham Marshes

20200113 Pink-footed Goose

TKP with 4000 on harvested beet field. No other collared birds in immediate area.

20200113 Pink-footed Goose

TKP on white collar.

20200113Tundra Bean Goose

2 adults with adopted 1st winter White-fronted Goose.

Seen on the 15th also and in the same area of ex-beet field.

20200113 Russian White-fronted Goose

5 birds arrived late.

20200113 Russian White-fronted Goose

20200115 Pink-footed Goose

UHV on silvery grey collar. Metal ring number not known....?

Data so far:

Grey neck collar with code UHV

Metal ring no .

Ringed 1/12/16 as an adult male at Martin Mere WWT (Lancs)?

Movements Cley Marshes 22/11/19.

20191230 Taiga Bean Goose

3 of 6 birds about the marsh.

Flew up with Pink-foot flock but kept separate and landed near the favoured pipes,
 the Pink-foot flock settled on Cantley Marshes

20191207 Whooper Swan, North Point Pools. 20200104 Cley Marhses 20191228 Bewick's Swan Chooseley

20191207 Whooper Swan
Before sunrise, North Point Pools Wells.
5 adults and 5 1st winters.

20191207Whooper Swan

Flew on West just after sunrise.

20200104 Whooper Swan 

 Group of 4 adults Pat's Pool Cley.

20200104 Whooper Swan

4 birds on Pat's all afternoon.

20191228 Bewick's Swan

10 birds SW and one out of frame.

Note Greylag Goose with migrants here...