After the rain at Titchwell we were inclined to go shopping for some supplies we had forgoten to get yesterday for which we would go to the supermarket in Hunstanton. We thought we could fit in a bit of car birding on the way though and in doing so got two year ticks.
Unfortunately the weather had not improved much from yesterday but we decided to give Titchwell a go – after all it was only a mile down the road. We were at the reserve before the visitor centre was open so we headed straight down towards the Parrinder hides. We stopped half way down at the…
The first week of our holiday ended when we left Horning and headed towards Thornham where we were due to spend a week at the cottage we have previously hired from our “friends” Tom and Anita. It was a bit of a drive and we wanted to do some shopping for food and drink and…
We got up in a pretty bad mood at the hotel because we had no hot water and a cooked breakfast wasn’t even included in the £140 a night room we had for 2 nights ! We had to wait for the manageress to arrive to complain about it and this meant that we did…
We left Strumpshaw Fen and headed towards Horning stopping off at NWT Ranworth Broad. We didn’t know too much about this site but when we arrived it was mentioned to us that a boat trip was going to be leaving in about an hour. We decided to take them up on this.
On the 1st May we left Halesworth to spend a couple of days on the Broads. Our first stopover en route was at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. We had managed to get an early start so we got there by 10am. It was pleasant to see that the facilities had been upgraded a bit since we…
The 29th had been a travel day from Mundford to Halesworth. On that day we stayed with our friends who lived nearby but on the 30th we had the whole day to ourselves before meeting up with them again in the evening for a meal at at The Angel Hotel where we stayed that night….
The weather this day was much better than the previous day when we had done so poorly at NWT Weeting Heath and RSPB Lakenheath Fen. In fact it turned out to be a really good day with forty-one species seen including three good year ticks – Garganey, Grasshopper Warbler and Stone Curlew
The 27th April saw us visit an ununsual combination of reserves – unusual because all three were run by different ornithological conservation groups, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserve at Weeting Heath, the RSPB reserve at nearby Lakenheath Fen and also the only reserve run by the British Trust for Ornithology, Nunnery Lakes. The weather was…
We started out on the 26th with a visit to Rutland Water. Our first stop was the Egleton Visitor Centre where we did a straight march to Lagoon 4 first visiting the Sandpiper Hide and then the Plover Hide. At Lagoon 4 we got Avocet, Ringed Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit etc. From there we worked…
