Monday: Snettisham, Holme Next the Sea

We spent the morning at Titchwell reserve.

Brent geese over Titchwell

Lots of people the by the time we left, many with spotting scopes and long lens cameras. Overheard some talk of the rare rufous bush chat that has been causing some excitement down the road in Stiffkey.

Birdwatchers

On the beach there were lots of shells washed up in a recent storm.

Shells

We went to the Lifeboat pub at Thornham for lunch. Soup, mussels.

We walked from the pub out along the ridge to Holme Dunes. We had good views of goldcrests in the fir trees close to the path.

Goldcrest

We walked past the Holme bird observatory as far as the site of a 4000-year old sea henge, discovered there in 1990.

Back at Thornham a couple pointed out a spotted redshank in the low tide mud, and we watched twite in the bank opposite.

Lots of birds today, including avocets, godwits, teal, gadwall, marsh harriers, kestrel, buzzard, red kite, linnet, twite.