Here’s the latest update from WVBS following their visit to Pensthorpe on 4th November 2024   Pensthorpe monitoring Monday 4th November 2024 We arrived at 7.30am on Monday to a chilly, overcast and grey Pensthorpe with very little wind. Starting our survey in the car park we soon picked up over 50 Stock Doves, together… Read more »

Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society visited Pensthorpe on 23rd October 2024. Here’s their report.   Pensthorpe 23rd October 2024 Ray, Sue and I arrived at Pensthorpe at 8.30 with fog lights on and a hope that the heavy morning mist would lift. After all the forecast for 7am was VG on the visibility front (V Poor… Read more »

Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society visited Pensthorpe on 11th September 2024. Here’s their report.   Pensthorpe 11th September 2024 Very cold and windy start to the day and very little numbers of birds in the drive. Thing improved as we made our way to Wensum Wetland with large Tit Flock just before the Monet Bridge (Blue… Read more »

Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society visited Pensthorpe on 28th May 2024. Here’s their report.   Pensthorpe 28th May 2024 Pensthorpe Monitoring Tuesday 28th May 2024 A later start than usual, but the list still quickly accumulated around the car park area, with 2 Marsh Harriers quartering the fields beside the driveway, a Mistle Thrush feeding there,… Read more »

Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society visited Pensthorpe on 20th May 2024. Here’s their report.   Pensthorpe 20th May 2024 We started later about 9.30am and it was still overcast with a chilly northerly wind. The drive and car park were very quiet but we were pleased to see a couple of Swifts and three Swallows, the… Read more »

Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society visited Pensthorpe on 19th May 2024. Here’s their report.   Pensthorpe Report 19th May   It was a bright start to the day with the promise of a warm day to come. There was nothing unexpected in the car park or on the drive but a pair of Pied Wagtail was… Read more »

Following their visit to Pensthorpe on 9th May 2024, WVBS provides an update.   When Steven Connor and I met at 7.30am at Pensthorpe it was a cool 10C with very little wind and light clouds. As usual we started the survey from the car park and within an hour we had recorded 40 species… Read more »

Here’s the latest update from WVBS following their visit to Pensthorpe on 1st May 2024 Arriving slightly ahead of Paul I was greeted by a single Red-legged Partridge wandering around the carpark. A calm warmish day with 6mph ESE winds and a temperature of 12 degrees.   On arrival, Paul informed me that it had been… Read more »

Here’s the latest update from WVBS following their visit to Pensthorpe on 26th April 2024. It was another cold morning start : 6 degrees (felt like 3) in the light northerly wind rising as high as 9 degrees by midday (felt like 7!). Although it did feel warmer when the sun came out briefly. We… Read more »