An hour spent at County School Sunday afternoon 14/10/01. An overcast day but decidedly warm for the time of year. From the station platform only could be observed;
a variety of the tit family cruising around the orchard, certainly Blue & Great with no doubt others waiting to be seen in the Leylandi at the end of the platform two Goldcrest were feeding in the lower branches only 4 or 5 feet away.
In the leafless Ash in the orchard a Great Spotted Woodpecker alighted, investigated the branches then flew off towards Fakenham.
Three Mistle Thrushes visited an oak close to the platelayers hut.
A heron flew over the meadow disturbing the rooks feeding on the ground.
A skein of geese flew down the valley, unidentifiable I'm afraid.
A single Red Admiral & Large White flew around the station environs and a single dragonfly hawked through.
I forgot to mention the Chaffinch, Blackbird, Woodpigeon, all so natural to see but there.
(Submitted by David Holt.)
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