I am off to Norfolk for a few days next week and am hoping to see lots of wildlife.
I am visiting Titchwell and Snettisham has anyone else got any ideas for good birding places to visit in that area please?
Strumpshaw Fen is also a great place to visit if anywhere near Norwich ! Is where i got my very first Kingfisher pics
Marsh Harriers and Bittern there too
Hi Celtic
I go to that stretch of coast fairly regularly.
I would suggest the following:
1. Cley - park at the NWT centre next to the coast road (good for a meal/coffee) and visit their hides out on the saltmarsh
2. Salthouse - drive right out to the beach car park and do some sea watching. All kinds of possibilities. The shingle itself is good for winter finches and buntings.
3. Blakeney and Blakeney Point. The latter is one of the UK birding meccas. Look in the scrubby bushes for wind-blown rarities. It is a long and tiring trudge but often worth the effort. You can get there by boats which take tourists to see the seals.
4. Wells and Wells harbour - take the long, straight road out to the point where you'd be unlucky not to see many waders, plus seals.
5. If you're after a good list, it's worth stopping off briefly at Hunstanton Lighthouse where there is a rare stretch of cliff and the chance of a Fulmar.
6. Snettisham - a flagship RSPB reserve on the Wash. Anything possible here, including daylight hunting owls at the far end... but a lot of walking involved.
Basically, the whole coast from Snettisham round to Cromer and beyond is Birding Central!!
Good luck.
Thanks IanC and Jolanta lots of good suggestions there ,i hope to have time to visit all of them .
I forgot to say.... if you go to Titchwell first, you'd have the opportunity to ask at the Centre what's been seen and where in the locality. The same could be said for Cley.
There is no visitor centre at Snettisham.