Welcome to the website of the Waveney Bird Club

If you are keen on birdwatching, are interested in preserving a unique environment or simply have an interest in nature, then this is the site for you!

You can get involved and contribute in a range of exciting ways. Take a look at our events and our special projects and let your love of the natural environment have a positive and lasting benefit.

Habitats

The River Waveney is a beautiful slow-moving river, which meanders from its source at Redgrave for about 60 km through some of East of England’s most picturesque countryside.  It meets the estuary at Breydon Water at the confluence of the River Yare.  The River Waveney is an extremely important ecological feature supporting a variety of species, some of which are rare or endangered.  In places, wet woodland grows right to the river’s edge and there are a few areas of wash where the river overflows when at high level.

Weekly Bird Sightings

Please send details of sightings you make in the Waveney Valley to Andrew Green andrew@waveney1.fsnet.co.uk. The most interesting will be included in our weekly round-up. An archive of sightings is available here.

28 June to 4 July

A Greenshank and six Green Sandpipers were present at Flixton GP, 29 June, while a full-summer plumage adult Mediterranean Gull was at Earsham GP on the same day.

A pair of Kingfishers with three young were seen at Wortwell, 28 June.

Tawny Owls were noted at Ashby Dell and Somerleyton (two), 3 July.

A total of 88 Egyptian Geese was present at Burgh Castle, 4 July, mainly on the Norfolk side of the river bank.

Juvenile Siskin, Ellingham ©Andrew Leverett