A few days birding and meeting family in Norfolk started with a visit to Welney on the way to Snettisham where we were based for three nights then on to Blakeney and finally to Catfield near Hickling Broad.
POCHARD
WHOOPER SWANs visit Britain in the winter from Iceland
-the yellow on the bill is distinctive to individuals like a fingerprint to humans.
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I`M FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES
A JUVENILE WHOOPER.
PINK FOOTED GEESE flying over Snettisham heading for the Wash.
TWO GREY PHALAROPES on the freshwater pool at Titchwell.
WATER PIPIT at Heacham.
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BROWN HARES also at Heacham.
PINK FEET IN THE SUNSET
SUNSET AT SNETTISHAM
Having bumped into the Ratcliffes and the Burts it was now John Cantelo who put me on to a large flock of Brambling somewhere in the middle of nowhere,thank goodness for sat navs.If you read my blog at all John thanks again.
BRAMBLING
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-FEMALE BRAMBLING
When we arrived at Holkham 1000s of Geese were flushed from the adjacent field it was quite a spectacle.
PINK FEET AT HOLKHAM
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-Noisy birds to say the least.
-they visit Norfolk in their thousands each winter from their Arctic breeding grounds.
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WIGEON
DRAKE WIGEON.
FISHING BOAT OUT OF KINGS LYNN AT HOLKHAM.
HOLKHAM DUNES minus SHORE LARKS that had been there half an hour before.
The weather had been reasonably kind for the first part now inevitably it went downhill and became cold windy damp and murky.
CLEY MILL in the murky mist.
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CROMER PIER
STUBBS MILL -Hickling Broad where Cranes usually come to roost,not tonight though.
A DARK FORBODING SKY AT HICKLING.
CLEY MILL in the murky mist.
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CROMER PIER
STUBBS MILL -Hickling Broad where Cranes usually come to roost,not tonight though.
A DARK FORBODING SKY AT HICKLING.
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