If Santon Downham and the other sites around Thetford were a little disappointing the previous day, our visit to BTO Nunnery Lakes made up for it this day. We parked at the side of the river, crossed the bridge and and walked along the side of the Little Ouse River until we reached the next…
We were staying at the Crown Hotel in Mundford again for three nights so, after breakfast, we headed off to Santon Downham. We parked at the Forestry Commission office forst but they were closed as it was a Sunday so we wandered around a bit taking a few wrong turns before we settled on a…
We set of from Wing and drove directly to Weeting Heath where we joined the Norfolk Wildlife Trust for 15 months (3 months free) and immediately set off to the usual hide looking for Stone Curlews. It wasn’t long before we saw two birds, one sitting hard on the nest but the other moving around…
We started our holiday with a stopover afternoon at Rutland Water. An early start meant that we had a few hours at Rutland Water where we managed to get excellent views of the two Ospreys both on and off the nest, the fame feeding on a fish the male had caught earlier. But the best…
A visit to friends in Somerset gave us a chance to stop off at WWT Slimbridge where we hoped we would be able to see some Cranes. As it happened we dis manage to see a pair of Cranes but also got a number of other year ticks.
A frequent holiday we make in January is to Lanzarote and whilst it is not a birding holiday as such, we do try to see a few birds and always take a run out to El Jable, the “desert area” in the top half of the island. Over the two weeks we got a relatively…
We holidayed in Spain for two weeks – one week in Seville and a second week in Cadiz. Although we were not on a birding holiday we did manage to fit in a six hour session with a guide that we found online. The company was Doñana Wings and our guide was Vicent Esteller, the…
Between 26th April and 10th May we had a birding holiday based on East Anglia and North Norfolk in particular. On the way there and back we also took in Rutland, Suffolk and Lincolnshire. Our itinerary was as follows :
We drove from Thornham up around the wash and headed for RSPB Frampton MArsh. We had never been to this reserve before so we were very curious – especially since we had had such glowing reports of from a couple of birders we met once at Rutland Water. It looked very ominous all morning as…
From Holmes Dunes we drove back past Thornham and on to RSPB Titchwell for our last visit of the holiday. The weather was a bit better today so we were hoping for one last chance of Turtle Dove that are known to purr near the car park. And that is exactly what we found.
