Greater Blue Crested Warbler

After a lovely walk along the vile section of the River Wensum (the part where unruly Yutes throw Strongbow cans and burger wrappers and other random rubbish such as traffic cones) this chilly evening, listening to birds and feeding apples to gypsy ponies (that was me, not E. he is really not much of one to have anything to do with things Gypsy and urged me away from the camp.), we were twitching (aka, bird-watching) our way back towards 'civilisation' when the shrill sound of a police siren rent the peace in two.

E said, 'Wait! What kind of bird is that!?' I decided it was the Lesser Spotted Norfolk Crested, even though we were not able to spot it for verification, still being a little ways from the big round-about.

Upon emerging from the path and onto pavement around the round-about, an ambulance came whizzing around the circle, flashing its blues. Eamonn has named this the Greater Blue Crested Warbler (since it warbles its song more than the LSNC, which just goes 'weeee-oooo, weeee-oooo!'. And it also only has blue lights instead of blue and red.).

The next time any readers are in Norwich, we will be happy to take them out twitching for these two lovely additions to our social habitat.