Norfolk Day Three of Three Day Tour – 3rd November

We headed for the Brecks today and had a slightly later start to allow the early morning rain to pass through. It was still damp and drizzly when we arrived at our first port of call. After a bit of searching I managed to locate 4 Stone Curlew still present, crouching and static looking a…

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Norfolk Day Two of Three Day Tour – 2nd November

Today was a very early start with a visit Snettisham, we just caught the high tide at 7.00am and there was a spectacular mass of 100,000 Knot, Bar-tailed Godwits, Curlew, Redshank, Dunlin and Oystercatchers. Today the birds were mainly out on The Wash, they were being disturbed by a hunting Peregrine and a Marsh Harrier.…

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Norfolk Day One of Three Day Tour – 1st November

I headed with the group straight to Holkham again, revisiting the Hawfinches seen in the last week. We stopped off en-route for a nice group of around c200 Fieldfare, the largest group I’ve seen so far this autumn. There was as expected a few Redwing scattered in amongst them. Once at Holkham we headed straight…

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