18th January

A glorious, sunny (but with a very chilly wind), relaxed day in Norfolk; started off at Sedgeford where we unfortunately failed to see the Eastern Yellow Wagtail but boxing Hares and a run-through Chinese Water Deer kept us entertained.   A look at Thornham at high tide then produced a good selection of waders, wildfowl and gulls, highlighted by two adult Mediterranean Gulls (one of which had a green darvic but it was far too far away to read) before a Woodcock showed brilliantly well by the centre during a brief pit stop at Titchwell for a coffee.    

A look at Burnham Overy was then full of Pink-footed Geese with several hundreds in the fields and lots of small flocks going over in amongst which were 3 Tundra Bean Geese while the many birds down on the saltmarsh included a Barn Owl, a Great White Egret, loads of ducks and geese and big wader flocks of Dunlin, Lapwing and Golden Plover.   We then popped along a bit further where the awesome Rough-legged Buzzard was sat in his bush on the outskirts of Wells (a magnificent bird!) and another Barn Owl showed very well hunting across the fields before heading back to Titchwell for the Harrier roost with a brilliant 40+ Marsh Harriers and a ringtail Hen Harrier dropping in to the reeds.

Rough-legged Buzzard (just)

Woodcock

Barn Owl

Chinese Water Deer