November 22nd – Norfolk Exclusive guided day
An exclusive day visiting Holkham NNR, Stiffkey Fen, Blakeney Channel and Stiffkey Greens. Highlights from today in bold below:- Species Count Greylag Goose 5 Holham NNR Pink-footed Goose 10000 Holham NNR Brent Goose (Dark-bellied) 20 Holham NNR Barnacle Goose 2 Holham NNR Common Shelduck 2 Holham NNR Gadwall 10 Holham NNR Eurasian Wigeon 300…
Read MoreNovember 19th – Norfolk Exclusive guided day
Seawatching early on today produced a good mix of birds with 3 Eider, 20 Common Scoter, Red-throated Diver, Little Gull & 5 Great Crested Grebe. Out on the marsh there were skeins of Pink-footed Goose ,150 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Pintail, 3 Marsh Harrier, a Peregrine flushing a lot of the wildfowl, plus Avocet, a…
Read MoreNovember 16-18th Three Day Norfolk Birding group tour
Day One – 16th November Hunstanton, Holkham & Titchwell This 3 day/ 3 night Norfolk tour was based from The Burleigh at Hunstanton. We started the day with a quick look at Hunstanton Cliffs, this proved productive, with highlights being 2 Whooper Swans moving South out over the sea, plus a superb ringtail Hen harrier…
Read MoreNovember 10th Norfolk Exclusive day Tour
We started the day with seawatching off Cley coastguards, we arrived with a misty murk, not ideal! Though an immediate and very nice surprise was a juvenile plumaged Black Guillemot close inshore and about the first bird I dropped my scope on to, fortunately it wasn’t too far out so we had quite good views. it drifted…
Read MoreNovember 8th & 9th Norfolk Exclusive 2 day Tour
Day One – Back to Snettisham again for another high tide! I picked up Sarah, Sue & Maggie in Hunstanton and then we headed straight to Snettisham for another High tide, none of them had ever seen it and their excitement was great to see! They weren’t to be dissappointed! Adding to the theatre of…
Read MoreNovember 5th-7th Norfolk 3 day Tour
Day one 5th November – Cley, Wells-next-the-sea, Stiffkey Greens We started today with a lively seawatch off Cley Coastguards. Numerous Red-throated Diver, with many close inshore, also Great crested grebes, steady passage of Gannet, and an Easterly arrival of Dark-bellied Brents in small groups moving West, wildfowl was well represented with groups of Wigeon, Teal,…
Read MoreNovember 1st Norfolk Exclusive Day tour
We had the morning at Cley NWT highlights were nice views of Snow Bunting, plus Red-throated Diver, Guillemot, Razorbill, Common Scoter, Gannets and Red-breasted merganser offshore. Bearded Tits seen well from the East bank and a nice selection of waders from the hides with Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, Teal Wigeon, Shoveler & Gadwall all…
Read MoreOctober 25-27th Norfolk Three Day tour
Day one – Hunstanton cliffs, Holme Dunes & Titchwell RSPB The day and the tour started bright and early with an amazing 3 hours watching visible migration at Hunstanton Cliffs, with an amazing passage and continuous flow of birds passing South, that included 54,800 Starling, 6013 Chaffinch, 88 Brambling, 162 Siskin, 387 Lapwing and also…
Read MoreOctober 21st Cley & Stiffkey Marshes
An exclusive days guiding around Cley & Salthouse, in tricky showery & windy conditions! Highlights of the day off Cley – 5 Great Skua, 3 Arctic Skua, a single Manx Shearwater, 50 Little Gull, an adult Mediterranean Gull, good numbers of Red-throated Diver and at the end of the day Stiffkey Greens – 300 Golden…
Read MoreOctober 13th -17th Norfolk Autumn tour
Scarce & Rare Bird Tour – (minus the rare birds this autumn!) This year wasn’t the best for Scarce or Rare birds, with weeks of Westerly winds, there was a distinct lack of scarce migrants or rare birds along the East Coast of the Uk and Norfolk! However, we enjoyed some nice birding and managed…
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