North Norfolk: Cley & Titchwell

A wonderful week on the fabulous north Norfolk coast has just recharged our batteries.  The quaint villages contrast with the rugged coast of shingle and sand, facing out to the North Sea.  Based in Cromer, we headed out west each day and visited the NWT and RSPB reserves bathed in sunshine and the areas in between and along the coast.

Whilst we did not see any rarities (in spite of looking) we did see an array of more common species, which were a delight in themselves.
 

Goldfinch

Ducks!

Wheatear

Redshank

Yellow-horned poppy

Wheatear

Cley

Little egret

 

Cromer pier

 

Brambling

 

Black-tailed godwit

 

Lapwing

Golden Plover

Brent Geese

 

Redshank

 

Teal

 

 

Turnstones

Siskin

New Forest alive with small birds

Amongst the trees near a small pond, the birds are fed regularly by visitors and are quite tame; marsh\willow tits, nuthatches, coal tits, great tits all mix with the occasional robin and numerous chaffinches.  Squabbling ducks fuss around on the ground below.