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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

12, mostly the Hyperion, Chandos and CPO titles.7

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've not heard her solo work, but i loved the album she did when she was in the group Malinky.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Brilliant day at Cley started with a pied flycatcher at Walsey Hills. We then found a red-backed shrike, which annoyingly flew off immediately. A flock of 8 curlew sandpipers dropped in to join 6 on the ground. We also had 16 little stints, 4 greenshanks, a knot, sanderling, turnstone and whinchat.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A spotted crake at Titchwell this afternoon was in exactly the same spot as they used to be when they were regular autumn migrants here 15 to 20 years ago.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Aw. That's cheating🤣 Brilliant series though, as is the Saint-Saens.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

You did well to get the English Orpheus disks. Most of them are long out of print and/or bronzed. Ted Parry thought that he was onto a real winner with this series but ended up not being able to give them away.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Germany losing on penalties. The reason the word schadenfreude was invented.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Double whammy in the garden last night. Hummingbird hawk moths are always great to see, but this one was eclipsed by a garden tick - a broad bordered bee hawk moth, both feeding on lavender.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Spent the morning at Cley watching family parties of bearded tits, reed buntings, reed and sedge warblers. Also a glossy ibis. Highlight though was the mothing session at the visitor centre. You get some idea of the size of this privet moth.

Privet moth at Cley Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You obviously don't know the Brits very well. We would never, ever agree to being the 501st state, let alone the 51st. Haven't you heard the English footy chant, 'He's fat, he's got piles. He's in the Epstein files. Trump's a see you next Tuesday ' etc.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I didn't know that the sea went downhill in Oregon🤣

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Full house of herons at Cley this morning: great white, little and cattle egrets, grey heron, spoonbill, bittern and glossy ibis. Returned home to find a red kite very low over the house.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Why not? Everyone else does. Chris can't decide whether to laugh or cry

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Blood dripping down my leg turned out to a cut from a CD case (don't ask). Then a massive scream when my achilles went going upstairs. Putting veg in the wok, the fat spat and I got a badly burnt belly. Whilst holding an ice pack to my gut, I got hot chilli sauce in my eye. Not the best of days.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Haydn's music is always described as 'witty' (insert 'cliché' or 'lazy journalism' as you wish). I don't know anyone who has even raised so much as a smile, let alone a chuckle.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A lot of Norfolk birders are out at first light - 2 hours before me!

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Yes, it's years since we have seen one, so that was great. Then you start moaning about why wasn't it a male🤣🤣🤣 Unfortunately that was the last we saw of it and at 0620, there was no-one else to show it to.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

An early morning visit to Titchwell was rewarded with a female golden oriole flying in front of us as we drove into the reserve. Also had our first little stints and spotted flycatchers of the year.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Bloody autocorrect. Sadly, nightingales have long since vanished, courtesy of an egg collector who wiped them out every year. Quail turn sporadically, ironically one was at Cley this morning. Nightjars seem to be doing well on all the local heaths.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I wouldn't mind, but i corrected the autocorrect, and then it changed it back again. Ho hum. Nightjars.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Cley tonight: gull-billed tern, glossy ibis, spoonbill, greenshank, 4 cattle egrets and barn owl. Fox killed an entire brood of shelducks. Nearby, we heard 3 nightmares, and saw a long-eared owl and a dead polecat. All this plus a fabulous blue moon too.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

We thought that we had found the mythical white capercaillie of Caledon once, but on investigation, it turned out to be a leucistic Turkey wandering through the woods. How? What? Why?

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Can't vouch for other languages, but when she sings in English, her diction is unsurpassed.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Is that all? Got 100 from eBay yesterday. 4,000 in one job lot last year. Seller had miscalculated - he thought that there were only 2000🤣 He wondered where I was going to sell them and looked somewhat surprised when I told him that they were for personal use.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Watching a programme of various artists doing Dylan covers at the BBC. Thought that Lulu's Mr Tamborine Man was the worst thing ever on TV (and she had the gall to do the same routine a few years later). But no! I give you Cliff Richard and the Nolan Sisters, performing Blowin' in the Wind. No words

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Well reported in several places yesterday including east anglia and Scottish Highlands.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Just watching Mahler 2 on Sky Arts. There is an ad break after the 3rd movement. I kid you not.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Took a trip to foreign parts today, well, Suffolk, looking for nightingales. 8 noted including one bird sitting out in the open for several minutes. Then on to Weeting where 7 weird and wonderful stone curlews were on show.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Haven't listened to this for years. Like you, I now own most of the individual recordings. Used to listen to all the Hyperion samplers on long car journeys.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

After our trip to Scotland, we went to Cley this morning for a bit of quiet birding. Within 10 minutes, we had seen a wryneck and red-rumped swallow. An hour later, we drove a short distance down the coast to Sheringham, where a hoopoe was our 200th species of the year.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Both are cetaceans. I'm not sure that I would call them both dolphins. It's like saying that technically ,Trump is a human. That's satire by the way. Still not sure what you understand on your side of the Pond🤣🤣🤣

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Coming back from a successful Scottish holiday, we pulled into a layby at random near Berwick for a coffee break. Trying to find a gannet seen by Chris, I saw some dorsal fins. Assuming that we had dolphins, I was more than a tad surprised to see a pod of 6-8 orcas passing close inshore. Wooooooo!

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Headed north yesterday for our Scottish holiday, staying at Strathpeffer. At least 5 wood warblers new in at Killiecrankie. Also four nuthatches, 2 dippers and a goosander. Pairs of displaying merlins, peregrines and golden eagles in Strathdearn, also 5 wheatears, and a ring ouzel heard.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Don't be an idiot all your life. Have a day off.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

You need to take English as well as science lessons. Theory does not mean what you think it means in this context.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Managed to find a couple of garganeys at Titchwell this morning. Reed warbler and common tern were new for year. Also 200 sandwich terns, 30 swallows, 15 sand martins, a wheatear, and half a dozen each willow warblers, chiffchaffs and blackcaps.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

But the music will last you lifetime, not just a five point bonus.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Would be nice to have QR codes to animated maps of changes over the years.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

But knowing the actual music is much better for the soul.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Were up in Strathpeffer at the end of April, exploring the west coast. Don't often get up in spring so looking forward to hearing migrants we don't really get in Norfolk such as wood warbler, pied fly, redstart, tree pip etc. Suspect that I shall not be short of willow warblers up there🤣

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Had my first wheatear at Cley this morning.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Great morning as ever at Cley despite dipping hen harrier, bittern, 13 twite, 2 glossy ibises and a short-eared owl 🤬. Did see our first four lizards of the year though.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

We had our best ever views of four Dartford Warblers on Kelling Heath, Norfolk this morning. Absolutely stunning birds. Then heard news of DWs being deliberately disturbed on Westleton Heath, Suffolk this evening. What is wrong with some people?

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thanks for that. They're considered foreign parts for those of us on the north Norfolk coast 🤣. Apparently William the Conq knew about Manea (Ouse Washes) when he was doing the Domesday Book, but couldn't find it as they criss-crossed the fens.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hi Rich. Where did you get your tree sparrows? They're getting harder to find now. Cheers, Gordon

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Autumn is brilliant with waders arriving August and September, hopefully rarities in October. Winter sees huge numbers of birds - geese, waders and wildfowl. Spring is hit or miss. Perversely you need bad weather to bring the birds down. Great breeding birds though. Summer - avoid like the plague.

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Gordon Hamlett @gordonhamlett.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We are lucky enough to have the Swanton Novers raptor watch point within 10 minutes of where we live. After several bad weather days, the birds were showing well today, and we logged 5 goshawks, including one female flying in front of us for 5 minutes. Also 14 buzzards, 2 sparrowhawks and a kite.

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