Snettisham Norfolk High tide Day tours 18th & 20th September
18th September & 20th September On both of these high tide visits we visited Snettisham early morning for the high tide and then went on to Titchwell afterwards. Both were amazing visits with the highest tides of the year resulting in c60,000 Red Knot being present. Both on the ground and in the air the…
Read MoreBirding on Blakeney Point
I spent the day walking up and back along Blakeney Point. There was a nice fall of migrants especially during mid and late afternoon. Highlights were Red-breasted Flycatcher, Wryneck and Nightjar & 3 Lapland Buntings with a nice scattering of other commoner migrants. Nightjar – 1 found out in Sueda beyond the Lifeboat station Red-breasted…
Read MoreExclusive guided birding morning around Kelling & Salthouse
I guided a family of three birdwatching in North Norfolk around the Kelling and Salthouse area today. They were particularly keen to combine a walk with a variety of habitats. The walk around Kelling took in hedgerow, fields, heathand and woodland offering a good mixture of birds. Birds recorded:-Common Greenshank 1Black-headed Gull 1Herring Gull 12Great…
Read MoreMorning exploring wildlife in a North Norfolk garden
I spent the morning with three young children and their grandparents looking at birds, dragonflies, butterflies and moths around their mature gardens in Edgefield. Their beautiful big garden and pond provided lots to explore and look at. Dragonflies, frogs, newts and others! Overhead there were Swallows, House Martins and Buzzards. It was great to see…
Read More28th August 2020 – Exclusive day guided birdwatching in Broads
I met up with Viv & Bernard at Hickling Broad for an exclusive days guided birdwatching in the Norfolk Broads. We started the day with a wander out on to the raised flood wall, the pools are now a little drier but a couple of hours along here provided us with 60+ Lapwing, 4 Ringed…
Read More26th August 2020 – Day Three of three. Exclusive Guiding Tour
With a strong WNW wind we had a really enjoyable day seawatching the stand out birds were the Black Guillemot, and Osprey that flew in off the sea. Unfortunately these were both before David and Sue arrived, but they throughly enjoyed getting to grips with Arctic & Great Skuas, plus Common and Sandwich terns, a…
Read More25th August 2020 – Day Two of three Day exclusive Guiding Tour
As the weather forecast looked pretty grim with heavy rain, we decided to start around lunchtime and go through till the evening. By midday the rain was easing, just leaving the gusting wind to deal with! We headed to North Point and had a nice couple of hours, with a good selection of waders, 4…
Read More24th August 2020 – Day One of three Day Exclusive Guiding Tour
We started this three day exclusive tour with a visit to Snettisham for another High tide spectacular. It was a different experience to last Saturday with the majority of the birds managing to just stay out on The Wash. The day started very well, just as we rounded the corner in the village a Barn…
Read More23rd August 2020 – Birding in North Norfolk
I had a free day and had a great early autumnal afternoon’s birding in North Norfolk. I was tempted by the Iccy at Gramborough & was rewarded with typical peek a boo views! Plenty of other migrants around Wheatear, Whinchats, Yellow Wags, Willow warblers & Chiffs. Late on this juvenile Shag was close inshore at…
Read More22nd August – Norfolk Exclusive High Tide Spectacular
Today I collected Wayne and Debbie from Fakenham at 7.30am and we headed to Snettisham for one of those special mornings, with a big tide and the autumn gatherings of thousands of shorebirds. As ever Snettisham and the birds didn’t disappoint and was topped off with wonderful light and clear skies. The pictures say more…
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