We had had such poor weather earlier in the year, when we had had been in Lanzarote, and I had been ill after that, that we decided we needed another break – but this time sunny! It was a bit last minute, but we arranged to stay in a serviced apartment at the Illa D’Or…
The first birding group morning out after our two-week holiday was one of my personal favourites – to the Goyt Valley and Danebower Quarry. We usually hope to get Redstart, Pied and Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit and Ring Ouzel. Well, we didn’t get all of these but we did get some.
This was our last day at the cottage before heading homewards so we decided to have a last look at Titchwell RSPB where we, at last, managed to get a year tick Little Gull. After that we went to the beach at Hunstantion and then returned home to pack our bags.
We tried our boat trip again on the 12th May and it was totally different weather to the previous afternoon when it had rained heavily. On this day it was wide blue skies and sunshine so we were happt to do out boat trip. Unfortunatelty the boat did not stop at the tower which affords…
On the 10th we moved from out hotel in Mundford and on to The Weyford Bridge Hotel at Wayford Bridge in the Broads. As we finished our breakfast the chef started speaking to us and it turned out that he was a keen raptor man with his own business, Norfolk Hawk Walks. He was very…
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…
UK Species Year List to December 2021: 138Total UK Species in December 2021: xxNew “Year Ticks” in December 2021: 1New “Life Ticks” in December2 021: 0
A mixture of bad weather and Covid worries limited our birding in early December so we only got out for one birding group outing and that was to Marbury Park on 14th December. Unfortunately there was a heavy mist all the way there so visibility on the water was poor and limited to just the…
UK Species Year List to November 2021: 137Total UK Species in November 2021: 64New “Year Ticks” in November 2021: 7New “Life Ticks” in November 2021: 0
The birding group were going to be visiting Burton but a last minute change of heart tookus to RSPB Marshside where we had hoped to see any of the Snow Buntings, Twite, Greater Scaup or Glossy Ibis which has been seen in recent days. We saw none of these! However, we had a good morning…
