Friday 9 November 2012

Salthouse, Norfolk - October 20, 2012


This was a family holiday in Norfolk and we were staying in a cottage at Salthouse, which gave me the opportunity to get out early in the morning.

This morning I walked along the beach road to the beach, although it was quite quiet there was a reasonable selection of birds.

There were several skeins of Pink-footed Geese went over, probably totalling about 1000 and six Pintail were observed over the sea.  At least four Red-throated Divers were observed with two coming very close in shore and there were several Gannets and a single Guillemot off shore and a single Kittiwake flew east.  There were at least five Little Egrets feeding in the dykes and seventeen Turnstone were in the car park.  A Cetti’s Warbler called on several occasions as I was almost back at the cottage but I was unable to locate it.
During the evening visit there was another 200 Pink-footed Geese went over and two Egyptian Geese were on the pool to the left of the beach road.  I also had three Marsh Harriers and a single Sparrowhawk.

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