NORFOLK WEEKEND PART 1

We arrived at Thornham point at 8am Saturday morning with rob stokes and straight away we saw two ringtail Hen harriers moving east over the marsh, and then are first target bird of the weekend the Northern harrier came into sight and passing by about hundred yards away. Rob then picked up a Barn owl hunting to our left also two Egyption goose flew into the field were there were curlews feeding over birds noted were

Waxwing

Marsh harriers

Brent goose

buzzard

allot of Pink footed goose

We then moved on to Burnham ovary hoping to find a Rough legged buzzard  Rob spotted a possible one sitting on a gate post a long way of to far to id , 

Grey partridge

Wigeon

Brent goose

6 waxwings





Twite



After that little disappointment we moved on to tichwell  RSPB reserve, on the way down to the visitor center we had one Whooper swan with 8 Mute swans  at the visitor center we had a very confident Robin also over birds noted were Siskins, Chaffinches and greenfinches

on the reserve we got good views of a lone Spotted redshank and 7 Marsh harrier then we moved to the hide were we got good views of

40 Twite,

Skylarks

meadow pipits

shame the hide was so packed with people which made it hard to see much , so we moved on to the over hide opposite were we noted

8 Ruff, Avocet, Teal, Pied wagtail, Dunlin, Pintail duck, Shovler, Gadwall, Linnets, Lapwing

on the way back to the car i hand fed a Robin

Also Velvet scoter on the sea

Pink footed goose

At a windy Cley marshes we got good views of American wigeon with about 200 wigeon

also Marsh harriers

Golden plover

and 5000 Pink footed gooose







Spotted redshank





nice close Robin





Me hand feeding a Robin