Rave-on!

Although the morning was fairly grey,it was dry and settled. I was hopeful of my first migrant Marsh Harrier today (odds on for a male in March) so took a walk from the house around my very local circuit - through the woods across the hill and back home over the fields. The woods were fairly quiet apart from bursting with Great, Blue and Coal Tits. The hill was quiet to, initially. as I walked back along the hedgrow I picked upa swan coming flying towards me,another Whooper Swan,and with me standing in almost the same place as the previous ones I saw from here! Pleased with my swan I continued on, when my eye was caught by a corvid flying just above the trees, a big corvid! My suspisions were confirmed on hearing a repeated, deep gutteral 'groar-groar-groar' A RAVEN!! a bloody Norfolk Raven! I watched as it continued along the tree line and then appeared to drop in. Still calling as I walked back to the Shreiking Pits, it was out of view but then broke cover, flying out and away,north then turning west high over the back of Overstrand and out of view. Not just a TG23 tick, but a new Norfolk bird for me, a real Norfolk birders bird. Fantastic!

Whooper Swan