Posts Tagged ‘Guided birdwatching Norfolk’
September 21st-23rd Norfolk Birding Group tour
September 21st Day One – North Norfolk We kicked off the first day of the tour with a walk out at Burnham Overy Staithe, it was a beautiful morning and the first surprise came early with a juvenile Tree Sparrow in the hedgerow amongst a group of Goldfinches. Also a Kingfisher whizzed along the shoreline…
Read MoreJuly 2021 – Norfolk Guided Birding & wildlife tour reports
As well as the 4 day wildlife tour we also ran several exclusive Norfolk guided birdwatching days through July. From early July returning adult waders and shorebirds started to appear. A list of bird species recorded are below and and include species recorded during guiding and personal birding sessions. The better birds are in bold!…
Read More26th August 2020 – Day Three of three. Exclusive Guiding Tour
With a strong WNW wind we had a really enjoyable day seawatching the stand out birds were the Black Guillemot, and Osprey that flew in off the sea. Unfortunately these were both before David and Sue arrived, but they throughly enjoyed getting to grips with Arctic & Great Skuas, plus Common and Sandwich terns, a…
Read More17th March 2020 – A day looking for Goshawks
An exclusive day mainly aimed at seeing Goshawks. We started in N Norfolk at my local site, it was an ideal morning, with some sunny spells and a good breeze. We were rewarded very quickly with a single male Goshawk skirting along the tree tops around 9.15am, then a lull with Buzzards dominating, at least…
Read More13th – 17th Norfolk Birding Winter Tour- Day Four of Five. The Brecks
We headed to the Brecks today and started in the North with a look for the now very scarce Willow Tits! As we headed up the track it’s nearest congeners, a Marsh Tit was calling and eventually we all got good views as it fed low down on a mossy branch.As we walked further on…
Read More10th – 14th October 2019 5 day tour
10th October 2019 – Day One Norfolk 5 day tour. We started the day at Cley with a seawatch. As expected in the SW wind, there was no skuas, or shearwaters, but a good variation of birds! Close inshore there were several Red-throated Divers including a smart bird with some retained summer plumage. Also several…
Read More20th -21st September 2019 Two day Shorebird & Wader tour
Friday 20th September – A good two day tour culminating in 25 species of wader starting on the Friday at Snettisham, we stopped off en-route for a nice group of Grey Partridge, not a wader but great to see! At Snettisham there was again another great selection of shorebirds, with 30,000 Knot, 2000 Redshank, 3000…
Read More18th September 2019 – Norfolk High tide day
Today was a high tide visit to Snettisham, we collected the group via Fakenham and then Snettisham and arrived at The Wash around 8.30am with a good forty minutes to the high tide. On arrival birds were gathering and building nicely with around 40-45,000 Red Knot massing on the remaining mud, also a mass of…
Read More3rd-5th July Bucks U3A group
3rd July – Wells-next-the-sea & Titchwell – We started a 3 day tour today, with a group of 6 from a Buckinghamshire U3A group. Birding started in earnest at North Point, Wells-next-the-sea and we had just over 2 hours of excellent birding, at this recently established wetland. There was plenty of Reed and Sedge Warbler…
Read More22nd-25th May 2019 – Norfolk 3 Day Group Spring Birdwatching Tour
22nd May Day One – Snettisham, Holme and Titchwell We started the day with a high tide at Snettisham where there was a spectacular number of Grey Plover, well over 1000 and mainly in full summer plumage! Also lots of Dunlin, Knot, Oystercatcher, Redshank , Sanderling, Bar-tailed Godwit, with smaller numbers of Ringed Plover and…
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