Summary of Birding in Norfolk, Cambridge, Rutland etc 22 – 28th March 2013 Our eight-day holiday, mixing visiting friends with as much birding as we could fit in en route, took us first to the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust site at Welney summarised here which was, disappointingly, as flooded as it had been last year….
Visit to Rutland Water Nature Reserve 28th March 2013 After we left Lakenheath Fen we drove up to the Midlands where we stayed at the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel, a very comfortable hotel that we had stayed at previously. It is a bit pricey normally but they do good offers for some dates and we took…
Visit to RSPB Lakenheath Fen 27th March 2013 After we left Halesworth we drove straight to Bury St Edmunds where we were staying with some other friends. After a nice dinner and watching a bit of the football on computer we went to bed and next day we set of early for Rutland Water but…
Visit to Halesworth 26th March 2013 After we left Minsmere on the 25th we went on to visit friends in Halesworth where we had dinner and caught up on things. They had been promising me that they had a Barn Owl in the field behind them that I could not fail to see if we…
Visit to RSPB Minsmere 25th March 2013 After our two-day guided birding weekend in the Thetford Forest and surrounding area we moved on to visit friends in Bury St Edmunds and en route we dropped in on RSPB Minsmere It was still very cold but there was no snow. We started out with a visit…
Birding in The Brecks Day 2 : 24th March 2013 On the second day of our two-day guided birding tour we had some new additions to the group and a couple of losses so Stuart felt obliged to show the newcomers some of the same spots we had visited the previous day. Whilst this was…
Birding in The Brecks Day 1 : 23rd March 2013 While we were getting work done on our house we thought that it would be a good idea to get away for a week when all that was left to do was the painting work which we felt could not really go wrong. As it…
Visit to WWT Welney 22nd March 2013 As a reward for enduring the renovation work on our house we took a few days off to do a bit of birding and a bit of visiting friends. Our initial plan was to do a two day birding tour of the Brecks but we stopped en route…
Scotland Holiday Day 11 : 16th July 2012 : Isle of May / Bass Rock On the Sunday we spent the day doing family visits and so on in Edinburgh and Musselburgh but we added an additional day onto our holiday so that I could have a chance to take a boat trip out to…
Scotland Holiday Day 9 – 14th July 2012 : Red Kites at Doune On the Saturday we had to get the ferry from Mull to the eastern coast of Scotland. Today would mostly be driving but we thought that we could fit in a little bit of birding. We drove from Oban across the Trossachs …
