The first cuckoo

Not strictly Norfolk, but close enough, set out for Carlton marshes, just through Oulton Broad, Suffolk, it is a Suffolk Wildlife Trust reserve, never been before, the turning is off the A146 to Beccles, opposite The Warren School, the turning is Burnt Hill Lane, it is 153 acres, it is part of The Broads, and there are many paths that link Oulton Broad, the river Waveney, there are marshes, Fens and dykes and large reedbeds, there is also an education centre.
Sunday was lovely and sunny but the wind was still very cold, so it was good to find a lovely little path out of the wind that took you into a very marshy area wich on the pamflet map was called Sprats Water nature trail, walking to the end of this path, it becomes a little confusing so it would be probably best to take a landranger map with you.
We heard Cettis Warbler and a Cuckoo, the first of Spring, Woodpeckers, after taking part in a Tree ID course, trying my non existent skills out, we found a tree which we believed to be a Black Poplar.