Monday 26 October 2015

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




Saturday 24 October 2015

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.