A day out in North Norfolk provided some real cracking birds with 9 species of Raptor being seen during the day. Hunstanton seafront is always a good place to start and we soon found a single Snow Bunting, 5 Mediterranean Gulls and after a tip-off, a fine Purple Sandpiper. Plenty of common waders and several Eider off-shore. A few Fulmar off Hunstanton Cliffs and thousands of Pink-footed Geese moving off the Wash inland. Below – First winter Snow Bunting – Snettisham, Norfolk. Moving on to Titchwell RSPB Reserve, a fine adult Whooper Swan in fields by the entrance […]
Jan 162011