Norfolk July 4 day Birds and Wildlife Tour
Tour leader – Chris Mills Norfolk Birding Participants:- Liz waterstone, Caroline Spence, Roger Beer, Alia Alim, Angela Buckley, Vivien Williamson & Peter Leach Accommodation – The tour was based from Whitehouse Farm guest house at Hindolveston with breakfast and packed lunches provided, evening meals were taken by choice in the evenings at Whitehouse Farm. We…
Read MoreJune 2021 – Norfolk Guided Birding & wildlife tour reports
During our guided day tours we customised the meeting and collection points to best suit clients, locations or the birds and wildlife they wanted to try and observe. We ran birdwatching and wildlife guided days in Norfolk during June 1st, 7th, 8th, 10th, 14th, 18th, plus a two day wildlife tour on June 26th-27th &…
Read MoreMay 2021 Guided Birding Tours – Norfolk Species List
Due to the pandemic situation prior to May, there were a lot of bookings in May for single exclusive days and half days guiding, whilst we were allowed eventually to run a 3 day group of 5 persons at the end of May. As might be expected we revisited many sites during May on our…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 2nd May 2021
I collected to days clients from Burnham market and we then headed to Burnham Overy Staithe, as it was a Bank Holiday we started a little earlier and got ahead of the crowds. It was a beautiful blue sky affair with a light to moderate NE wind, as per a lot of April! There was…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 29th April 2021
Today I met Ian and Helen for an exclusive days guided birding in North West Norfolk, they were fairly new to birding so we concentrated on looking mainly at the commoner shorebirds and wildfowl. We started the day early and were at Snettisham just after 7.30am to watch the shorebirds on the High tide there.…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 28th April 2021
A nice day relaxed exclusive guided Birding day In Norfolk with Kelly and Robin around Cley, Salthouse & Kelling. We started with lovely and incredibly close views of this lovely singing Grasshopper Warbler! It was singing right out on top of the bramble for several minutes at Cley. Nearby there were several singing Sedge warbler…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 25th April 2021
I met up with Vishi & Nidhi today at Swaffham and we then headed down into the Brecks. We started with some straightforward target birds Red-legged Partridge, also several Tree Sparrows but no sign today of last weeks Stone Curlew, as these were another target we quickly headed elsewhere. Fortunately the next stop provided 2…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 21st April 2021
Today I met a couple at Burnham Norton and we then headed off to Burnham Overy and out to the West end of Holkham Pines, there was a lovely mixture of birds, some late wintering species and some summer migrants. A notable group of 25 Mediterranean Gulls were gathered just off the seawall, all in…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 20th April 2021
The day started very well with a short and quick stop for Stone Curlew, also accompanied nearby with another target…2-3 of the Tree Sparrows! There was 2 Stone Curlew and pretty reasonable views through the scope, I grabbed a quick record shot below whilst Tim & Ann enjoyed the scope views! We then headed South…
Read MoreNorfolk Birding Exclusive Day – 18th April 2021
Today I guided a couple in the Holme area and we visited all the various areas around the reserve. We recorded 73 species, the highlights today were c250 Dark-bellied Brents still present, a male Cuckoo calling, a nice selection of waders including, 4 Whimbrel, 65 Curlew, 100+ Golden Plover, Bar & Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Snipe,…
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