Posts Tagged ‘norfolk guided birdwatching’
October 14th-18th 2022 Norfolk Birding Autumn Birding Tour
A 5 day Group Tour – Guide for Norfolk Birding Chris Mills Participants for the 5 days – Richard & Lesley Powell, Adrian Bradley, Adrian Roach, Bob Turner & Peter Follett. Thanks to Adrian Bradley and Adrian Roach for providing images. Day One 14th October – Snettisham, Holme Dunes NNR & Choseley We started the…
Read MoreSeptember 28th – Norfolk High Tide Group Day Tour
A wonderful high tide tour with fantastic light, gave us a round 40-50,000 Red Knot, 3-4000 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2000 Oystercatcher both seen in their masses, then flying overhead! Plus a plethora of commoner waders, including Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Sanderling, Grey Plover, Turnstone & Black-tailed Godwit. A Juv Peregrine added to the drama when it chased…
Read MoreSeptember 27th – Exclusive Birding Day in South Norfolk
Today we guided an American lady visiting the UK, she was also joining the High Tide tour tomorrow, so she asked we concentrated on woodland and passerine species today. Whilst we headed for the reliable and interesting farmland and woodland habitat of The Brecklands, we did stop off of the impressive post breeding gathering of…
Read MoreSeptember 21st-23rd 2022 Autumn Norfolk 3 day birding group tour
Tour with an emphasis on waders & shorebirds – thanks to Peter Hassett who joined the tour and took some great images! His website can be found at www.rightclick.photography Day One – 21st September 2022 I collected the group and we immediately headed towards Salthouse area, where the pools along the Iron road had been…
Read MoreNorfolk Birds & Wildlife 4 Day Tour 3rd- 6th July
Day One 3rd July – Swanton Novers, Foxley Wood, High Kelling We started the day with a visit to the nearby Swanton Novers watchpoint where we had amazing views of Honey Buzzards, a displaying ♂ Honey Buzzard, followed by a second ♂ Honey Buzzard. Whilst enjoying the Honey Buzzard there was also Yellowhammer, Linnet, Chiff-chaff,…
Read MoreJune 30th Exclusive day
A lovely day out in North Norfolk with a couple for an exclusive days guided birding in North Norfolk. North Point, Wells offered up Green sandpiper, 4 Ruff, lots of avocet, Lapwing, Little Ringed Plover, several superb Marsh Harriers, including 2 fresh juvs, lovely views of fledged Whitethroats, Sedge warblers and a flyover Spoonbill. Stiffkey…
Read MoreJune 16-18th Norfolk Three day tour
This was a three day tour in Norfolk in mid-June for a U3A group. It proved very successful with some nice surprises and we also managed to see most of the tricky breeding species as well. Day One – started with a lovely surprise in the from of the breeding Bee-eaters near Trimingham, we had…
Read MoreApril 11th – May 11th Norfolk Birding Tours & Species recorded
Species recorded during April – May 11th During April 11th to May 11th 2022. There was quite a backlog of people as well as advertised Norfolk group tours and I ended up running guided birdwatching tours on 19 days during this period! It was impossible to keep up with daily Norfolk trip reports on the…
Read More8th-10th April Group 3 Day Tour
8th April – Day One of three We started the day at Burnham Overy in clear blue skies and a light chilly NW Wind. There was instantly lots to look at! The Grazing marsh held good numbers of Curlew, plus small numbers of the last Teal, Wigeon and Shoveler. In the channels there were more…
Read MoreFebruary 16th-18th Three day Winter Tour
February 16th – Day One Holkham NNR, Cley marshes & Stiffkey Greens We started off the day at Holkham NNR, a quick roadside stop gave us lovely views of 165 White-fronted Geese showing down to 40m from the minibus. Also several Egyptian Geese, Greylag Geese and 2 Pink-footed Geese in the same area. Also Buzzard, Marsh harrier…
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