Tuesday 17 May 2011

Part 3, Breydon.

Thursday, a steely grey atmospheric day across Breydon, in other words it was flippin cold, with the wind whipping across the marshes behind us from the Acle straight. We started from Asda car park, not too bad the sun was trying to get out, but big black ominous clouds lurked.Our plan was to walk along the embankment just before the tide was about to come in, and when the tide came in it would slowly force all the little waders poking about in the centre muddy bit, towards us seemed like a good plan, a simple plan,so out we walked to where the second hide ued to be , not the first hide, which used to be inhabited by goodness knows what.then we hunkered down out of the wind, our coats wrapped up near our ears and waited.Slowly and surely the tide came in, but guess what no waders , they decided to stay way over the other side, near the muddy bits near the new bridge. We did see a couple of waders in the distance using scopes, there was a beautiful lwhite Little Egret, they always look like some exotic beautiful bird which should be seen on the African Plains, not on steely grey Breydon.we saw Oyster Catcher, Terns, the tide came rippling in, and the big black clouds also came in and the heavens opened, we got a bit wet, so decided to walk back as fast as we could.We risked a little peek from the first hide which is quite high up on stilts and was also a bit disconcerting for me as there is no solid floor just metal grilling and you could see through to the ground below, and I hate  heights, couldnt wait to get out of there.back to the nice warm car!

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