Thornham I went out for a bit of a walk around 8am but the weather, even though it was bit brighter than earlier in the week, was still cold and windy and there wasn’t much bird life apart from the gulls. I did, however, get a Great Black-backed Gull – a first for the holiday.
Titchwell We started out the day at Titchwell arriving there at 9am – an hour before they opened. We headed straight down to the first hide on the path that leads to the Parrinder hide. On our way down we could hear Sedge and Reed Warblers, Chiffchaff, Cetti’s Warblers and assorted other woodland birds. The…
We left Halesworth for Thornham around 9am. We dropped in at Cley just after opening time around 10:15am. They said that there had been Spoonbills dropping in already this morning but we did not see any. In fact, there were very few birds at all. We went to the three central hides but they held…
We checked out of our hotel in Halesworth and started out for Potter Heigham where we were spending the night. We stopped off at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen – a site we had never been to before – and in the reception we spoke to a couple of staff members who told us about the Cuckoo,…
Not much birding today. Did a walk from Snape Maltings to Iken Church and did see Marsh Harrier – pretty common in this area – but not a lot more. We were intending to go to Walberswick and walk around the estuary and reed beds there but it started to get pretty wet so we…
We started out with the intention of trying to see the reported Savi’s Warbler at RSPB Minsmere which had apparently been reeling from a bush next to the L locator sign in the reed bed outside the Island Mere Hide earlier in the day. We stayed there for about forty-five minutes but apart from good…
When we left Peterborough, our first call was at Weeting Heath where we had a blank at first but then, suddenly as happens with them, a single Stone Curlew appeared and showed very well pretty much for as long as we had time to stay. A couple of Curlew flew in but I didn’t see…
We started a holiday at Rutland Water where we broke up our journey to Halesworth in Suffolk. This was part of a fortnight taking in Suffolk and Norfolk but having as “bookends” stopovers that allowed us to visit Rutland Water twice – a fortnight apart. “Bookends doesn’t quite cover it as on this first visit…
We went for a fantastic three-week holiday taking in a three-night stop at San Francisco either side of a week on Maui and a week on Big Island. I didn’t record every sighting as it wasn’t really a birding trip, as such, and I wanted to record lots of other things too. I did, however…
The sad loss of a very good friend took us to Portugal for her funeral. We were in Lagos between 15th – 19th January. The unhappiness of the occasion was soothed a little by the odd couple of hours birding that I managed to fit it. It was a bit of relief from the intense…
